10 Foods That Help You Sleep
Food #8: Chamomile Tea
For thousands of years, chamomile tea has been in use to help calm the nerves and induce sleep. And there is a scientific explanation for this. Chamomile contains an antioxidant called apigenin. When you take chamomile tea, the apigenin in it ends up in the brain where it binds to some receptors to reduce anxiety. This causes you to relax enough to sleep.
Various studies have established that people who take chamomile tea fall asleep faster and stay asleep longer compared to those who don’t. Chamomile even works for people who have insomnia. In one study, a group of people suffering from chronic insomnia were given 270 mg of chamomile extract, two times a day for four weeks. The study found that those who took chamomile fell asleep faster than those who did not. They also remained asleep longer with few disturbances at night.
