Keep your bedroom dark and cool to support melatonin production. Before bed, eat raw honey to raise liver glycogen, MCT oil for ketones, and collagen for glycine, which calms the nervous system and prevents the blood-sugar crashes that wake you at 3 a.m.
The other things that work aside from dark, that lowering the temperature of the room for people wake up late, like 3 or 4 in the morning and can't go back to sleep. Racing thoughts. That's a cortisol and a fueling issue. Before bed, you need either raw honey or collagen or MCT oilbrain, octane, or maybe all three. And there's different pathways. Raw honey, not in hot water because it's not raw anymore, raises liver glycogen, but not muscle glycogen. And we're talking a small amount. It stabilizes it so you don't get a blood sugar crash. Brain octane provides ketones, which are the backup energy supply for the brain to pump itself out at night. And for some people, the amino acid glycine that's present in collagen can be calming and help them sleep through the night.
