6 Ingredients That Make You Sleepy & Still Taste Pretty Dang Good, According To Experts
Originally posted October 12, 2018, Elite Daily
By: Annakeara Stinson
It is amazing how food can have a profound effect on the body. Some foods can heavily energize you, while others can help you sleep. In this article, Annakeara Stinson looks at different foods that may help people fall asleep. S&Co client Pedram Shojai talks about the sleepy-time benefits of boiling banana peels for tea.
Stinson writes, “ I know this one might sound a bit weird, but according to Pedram Shojai, a doctor of eastern medicine and founder of Well.org, bananas in general are a great food to eat when it comes to catching up on your shut-eye. Of course, bananas are a pretty versatile food; you can eat them as they are, add them to yogurt, bake them into bread, or, if you really want to savor the sleep-friendly benefits, ‘boil banana peels into a tea for extra potency,’ Shojai tells Elite Daily in an email. ‘They are filled with magnesium and potassium to calm the mind.'”
Click here to read the full list of sleep-inducing foods!