Insomnia and Coconut Water

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I have been surprised at how many people suffer insomnia. This topic will focus on the idea that coconut (e.g. coconut water) is an important tool for overcoming insomnia. (Note: Today we had a coincidental report from eDOC that Lion's Mane mushroom allowed a patient who couldn't sleep more than 2 hours at a time sleep for 7 hours.)

Credit to forum member Dick who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and coconut helped reverse his condition after reading the book STOP ALZHEIMER'S NOW by Bruce Fife. See: https://vitamincfoundation.com/forum/vi ... 773#p63755

According to Fife, a key to Alzheimer's and memory recovery is coconut. The Medical Medium agrees with the importance of coconut for brain issues.

Medical Medium

" Coconut water can greatly benefit people with Parkinson’s, and it’s also a must for those with Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia. It’s good for every single brain and neurological disorder.

.... coconut water— is the best tool of all time for neurotransmitter support.

Coconut water provides vital glucose and critical mineral salts, including potassium and sodium, to the bloodstream. This is a fundamental component of our neurotransmitter chemical production. If we don’t have the neurotransmitter chemicals we need, it can lead to insomnia, neurological sleep apnea, and other sleep disturbances.

The best thing you can do to avoid these issues is to drink coconut water—it is the best tool of all time for neurotransmitter support.

William, Anthony. Medical Medium Life-Changing Foods: Save Yourself and the Ones You Love with the Hidden Healing Powers of Fruits & Vegetables (pp. 240-241). Hay House. Kindle Edition.

From https://vitamincfoundation.com/forum/vi ... 773#p63754

MORE FROM THE MEDICAL MEDIUM ON COCONUT (COCONUT WATER)

One powerful undiscovered tip is to consider taking your supplements with a piece of fruit such as a banana or even some potato, sweet potato, winter squash, raw honey, pure maple syrup, or coconut water (that’s not pink or red). Natural sugar is what carries vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients through the bloodstream to help them find where they need to go, so taking your supplements with natural sugars ensures that your liver (the processing center) and other parts of your body can actually use them.

Coconut water: 20 to 40 ounces daily (not pink or red)

vegetables. Manufactured electrolyte compositions are greatly different from naturally occurring electrolytes and do not restore neurotransmitters or neurons because they are man-made concoctions that can never equal coconut water or celery juice, for example.

If you’re using coconut water in this smoothie, make sure the coconut water doesn’t contain natural flavors and isn’t pink or red.

William, Anthony. Medical Medium Brain Saver Protocols, Cleanses & Recipes: For Neurological, Autoimmune & Mental Health (p. 320). Hay House. Kindle Edition.

BRAIN DETOX TONIC

Makes 1 serving

This two-part tonic helps remove ammonia gases that reach the brain from putrefied proteins and fats stuck on the walls of the intestinal tract lining and other foods that are fermenting in the intestinal tract.

Following up the base recipe 15 minutes later with pure coconut water serves an important purpose: pushing the toxins out of the body.

2 cups (16 ounces) coconut water
1 teaspoon spirulina
1 teaspoon barley grass juice powder
2 teaspoons pure wild blueberry juice or 2 teaspoons pure wild blueberry powder
1 dropperful alcohol-free lemon balm tincture
1 cup (8 ounces) coconut water, for follow-up Mix all the ingredients except the 1 cup of coconut water for follow-up.

Fifteen minutes after finishing your Brain Detox Tonic, drink the additional cup (8 ounces) of plain coconut water.

TIPS Avoid coconut water that is pink or red, which means it has gone off and is rancid. Also avoid coconut water with added flavors.


William, Anthony. Medical Medium Brain Saver Protocols, Cleanses & Recipes: For Neurological, Autoimmune & Mental Health (p. 320). Hay House. Kindle Edition.

[ofonorow]

I had an x-39 subscription for a year but, sadly, I saw no results. I was hoping it would help with my chronic insomnia (13 years now) and help me recover faster from my workouts.

Thank you for all the helpful info! I have found recently that eating a KIND bar with a protein shake at bedtime definitely helps my insomnia.

I have tried melatonin but not as high as 10mg (easy to do). Some doctors say not to take it every night. Do you concur? If so, how many nights per week would you suggest?

I've been on a low dose statin (3 times per week) for a year but there are so many conflicting studies on cholesterol, I may decide to stop it.

As far as X-39, David Schmidt recommends a 2 to 3 mg copper glycinate supplement as GHKcu is a copper peptide and needs copper (cu) nutritional support.

INSOMNIA


... the most obvious nutritional approach for insomnia is melatonin, and you haven't commented. Have you tried melatonin?

This "sleep" hormone is quite like vitamin C, in that it is a strong antioxidant without side effects (other than vivid dreams).
Melatonin is found in all cells. There have been cancer studies run at very high dosages (200 mg) and for someone of your age I would predict that for sleep, a minimum of 10 mg just before bed would be required.
The Medical Medium's source is highly in favor of melatonin supplements, recommending as much as 30 mg for Parkinson's patients.
The only issue is that perhaps 20 years ago, there was a noticeable difference in quality of the various brands, a difference that my wife could detect. I doubt quality is a problem today. We purchase our Melatonin at COSTCO (or Sam's Club).

If you try melatonin, and it fails, then there are other modalities, including the various Lifewave products that help promote sleep.

And may I ask what medications you currently take? Your brain requires cholesterol, and one of the side effects of the statin cholesterol-lowering drugs, for example, is insomnia.

The other little-known problem that can cause anxiety (and insomnia) is a shortage of glucose in the brain.

The Medical Medium wrote an 800 page "Brain Saver" book that fully describes all the brain issues caused by a lack of glucose. Lately, in today's "Keto" world. this has grown into a bigger problem. We the People these days have been "scared away" from sugar, as we have been scared away from healing sunlight.

The brain is like an electrical device with waves of electrical energy creating our thoughts. The electrical activity does cause the brain to actually heat up. Glucose, in addition to powering the brain, acts like an anti-freeze for the brain. A coolant.

I am not recommending highly refined table sugar, which is in most packaged foods. Table sugar is sucrose, a sugar which is half glucose and half fructose. Linus Pauling warned us about taking too much fructose.

Even table sugar would be preferable to no sugar w/r to brain function. The ideal source of glucose is organic fruits (or coconut water).

And it turns out that all nutrients require sugar (really the insulin that is stimulated by the sugars we eat) before the nutrient can enter cells.

This is the knowledge behind our new Cardio-C XM product that features glucose (instead of Stevia).

Most people who work out, avoid sugar and I just wrote this article THE GLUCOSE CURE FOR WEIGHT GAIN AND OBESITY
https://vitamincfoundation.com/forum/vi ... hp?t=16098

And the start of a new article that describes the paradigm change behind our new Cardio-C XM maintenance product
https://vitamincfoundation.com/forum/vi ... 726#p63726

I am quite confident that giving your brain what it craves, i.e. glucose, will help with both your insomina and workout recovery.

Thank you for all the helpful info! I have found recently that eating a KIND bar with a protein shake at bedtime definitely helps my insomnia.

I have tried melatonin but not as high as 10mg (easy to do). Some doctors say not to take it every night. Do you concur? If so, how many nights per week would you suggest?

I've been on a low dose statin (3 times per week) for a year but there are so many conflicting studies on cholesterol, I may decide to stop it.

Very interesting! How would you suggest taking coconut water? How many bottles a day? Closer to bedtime for insomnia or throughout the day?

I haven't read that the time of day matters, The first post in this topic contains what I found from the Medical Medium. I remember they do say to make sure the coconut water hasn't turned pink, which I inferred meant it had already oxidized.

Thank you for all the helpful info! I have found recently that eating a KIND bar with a protein shake at bedtime definitely helps my insomnia.

I wonder if eating anything before bed would do the trick? Say a fruit smoothie? Protein okay so long as you are working out, but many people cannot digest it properly, leading to a buildup in the gut. (Celery juice good at clearing out that gunk).

I have tried melatonin but not as high as 10mg (easy to do). Some doctors say not to take it every night. Do you concur? If so, how many nights per week would you suggest?

After reading three books on the research, my wife and I have taken melatonin for about 40 years - every night. We sleep like babies. No reason to skip a night since you already have insomnia, implying that your pineal gland in the brain is not making what it should. The answer is 7 nights. The 30 mg is for people with neurological brain disorders, but it won't hurt you, and if 10 or 15 mg may work.

I've been on a low dose statin (3 times per week) for a year but there are so many conflicting studies on cholesterol, I may decide to stop it.

There isn't a single honest study. We have been warning for years (because you can get the same 'effect' much more safely taking higher doses of vitamin C.) Vitamin C addresses the problem. Statins address a symptom. Here is a quote from the medical medium. THis is from Liver Rescue

According the Medical Medium the statin cholesterol drugs are counterproductive to heart patients.

“Statins: Commonly taken for high cholesterol, when the irony is that cholesterol problems derive from the liver and statins worsen the liver condition, elevating cholesterol even more, although the medication hides this.” Anthony William Medical Medium