The Top 5 Midnight Snacks to Help You Sleep

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Warm Milk
It contains an amino acid called tryptophan that's associated with sleep, but that's not the reason warm milk works. (Milk contains protein, and in the presence of protein, tryptophan has a hard time entering the brain. This is why the turkey-tryptophan thing is basically a myth too.) "The effects are really more psychological--if your mother gave you warm milk before bed, you associate it with sleep," Breus... more 

Photo by: CN Digital Studio

Warm Milk
It contains an amino acid called tryptophan that's associated with sleep, but that's not the reason warm milk works. (Milk contains protein, and in the presence of protein, tryptophan has a hard time entering the brain. This is why the turkey-tryptophan thing is basically a myth too.) "The effects are really more psychological--if your mother gave you warm milk before bed, you associate it with sleep," Breus says. "So from that perspective, it does work for a lot of people." less