To a great night’s rest, naturally!

Have trouble getting a good night’s rest? We all do at times. With the stressors in our modern environment, it can become difficult to fall asleep, stay asleep and wake up feeling rested. Stress, and electromagnetic frequencies from cell phones, computers and other electronics play a role. Bright lights and so many other factors can affect our nervous system and sleep hormones, which ultimately influence our quality of sleep.

Many different factors, both external and internal, can influence your brain, hormones and nervous system, which can offset your sleep or deprive us of quality sleep.

The easiest thing to do is to grab a sleeping pill, but is that a good solution? It may work short-term, but in the long term, you’re hindering your body’s health and natural abilities.

Sleeping pills have known side effects such as dizziness, constipation, stomach pain, difficulty focusing, memory problems and harm to the central nervous system.

Sleep is extremely important, there’s no arguing that. When you are deprived of sleep, you lose out on what your body can do to function optimally. Your cognitive thinking skills are impaired, your motor skills decline, your energy drops, and you’re at even more risk for diseases and health conditions such as obesity, diabetes and cancer.

You need a full night’s sleep. You’ll feel better, function better and prevent disease by getting at least eight hours of sleep each night. You don’t want the side effects that sleeping pills offer, so what can you do? Enter banana cinnamon tea.

Bananas are rich in potassium and magnesium, but what most people don’t know is that the banana peel has even more potassium and magnesium than the banana itself, and it’s often thrown away as trash. Not anymore!

With this simple recipe, you can get the benefits of the potassium and magnesium in the banana peel. Potassium and magnesium are beneficial for the nervous system and are great for relaxing the muscles. In fact, magnesium is the most important mineral for muscle relaxation and can reduce muscle cramps along with other aches and pains.

When you’re stressed, guess which mineral is depleted from the body first? You guessed it! Magnesium. You need magnesium to cope with stress, allowing you to relax and fall asleep.

Cinnamon is great because it’s one of the best ways to balance blood sugar levels. When blood sugar levels are balanced, your hormones can function in a way that allow for better sleep. If your blood sugar levels are off, then you may have energy at night, or be tired during the day.

Utilizing the therapeutic value of the banana, the banana peel and cinnamon is a great approach to kicking insomnia and other sleep disorders to the curb — for good.

Here’s the recipe:

Ingredients:

• 1 organic banana (with peel)
• 1 small pot of water
• A sprinkle of cinnamon (if you’d like)

Step 1:Simple cut of both ends of the banana (top and bottom) as shown below:

Step 2: Put the banana into a pot of bowling water. If the water is spring water or purified in some way, even better!

Boil for about 10 minutes. Sprinkle some cinnamon into the water as well. If you’d like to add some stevia for sweetening, do so. Stevia helps to balance blood sugar levels, and will not spike blood sugar levels before bed.

Step 3:Add more cinnamon if desired and enjoy!

As another option, you can also peel and eat a boiled banana with cinnamon sprinkled on it the next day if you’d like! (David Wolf recommends the next day because you don’t want to put food in your gut to digest right before bedtime).