Running out of nutrients robs you of the building materials required for serotonin and melatonin. A good reason to nourish yourself every chance you get.

Are You Deficient in Brain & Sleep Nutrients?

Restorative sleep, robust mental health, and the nutrients they need.

Insomnia plagues nearly a quarter of the world’s population, making them more likely to suffer from depression. Ninety per cent of depressive patients struggle with a sleep disorder. The relationship between both debilitating disorders is bi-directional, and a chicken or egg conundrum.

Sleep disorders and psychiatric illness cohabit all too often, making both conditions worse and driving people to despair. Poor sleep has become an independent risk factor for mental illness and mental illness often precedes poor sleep.

The number of people suffering from these clustered conditions rises every year along with other chronic diseases of modernity. In the richest of countries, as long-term illnesses increase with obesity, malnourishment hitches a ride. But what’s the bridge between a shortage or nutrients and sleep, and mental health; and what can you do about it?

Neurotransmitters are still relevant

Since the 1960s, doctors have treated mental health disorders with drugs that essentially increase the activity of neurotransmitters. The idea being that a shortage of one or more of the neurotransmitters serotonin, dopamine…