Honey

I am not the best sleeper. I always envied people that could fall asleep in one minute and sleep through the night. I fall asleep and wake up one hour later. Then I toss and turn for 6 more until the alarm goes off. I am not the type of person to use medications, but occasionally after a week with only a dozen total hours of sleep, I take 1/2 of an ambien. I hate to do it and for some reason feel guilty. I have the same bottle of pills for about 2 years and the prescription only contained 30 pills. Yesterday on Yahoo's home page, I saw an article about 10 ways to use honey. I read it and when I came to number 10, I was interested. It said that if you awake during the night and cannot fall back to sleep it may be due to hormones. If you eat 1 teaspoon of honey mixed with a few shakes of salt, it will balance things out and you will return to sleep. Last night, after I woke up at 11:30pm, I went downstairs and filled a spoon with honey. I added a bit of salt to it and swallowed it. Lo and behold, I must have fallen asleep. I woke up this morning at 6am. Was it a fluke or did it really work? I guess I will have to do it a few more times to be convinced.