Does Olive Leaf Extract Affect Sleeping?

by Carol
(Cairns)

Question;
I'm currently on sleeping pills and find since having a bad cold and taking olive leaf extract, that I am having restless, mind-going-in circles , awaking after 1/2 hour to hour sleep.

I'm so tired, had bad headaches from being overtired. Is this a reaction to the medication sleeping pill.

My doctor told me to take this course for 7 days, along with my anxiety, but meanwhile my immune system was down from my school where I worked and caught a cold.

Answer;
Olive Leaf extract works out of your system in about 4-6 hours. If you take it before bedtime it could affect your sleeping for a while as it is a vasodilator and especially increases blood flow to the heart according to research.

I would guess that anxiety plays the bigger role in sleeplessness and there are many ways to improve sleep including nutritional supplements.

If you are under stress it pays to take a multi-vitamin, or foods rich in B vitamins especially. Drink calming teas in place of black tea or coffee. Do some gentle exercise like walking in the evening and don't eat within a good 3 hours of bedtime.
It's amazing how a few little things like this can help.

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Histamine attack!
by: Anonymous

OLE provokes a major histamine expression secondary to the fungaltoxins released by killing yeast. They symptoms described are that of histadelia. And they can be very powerful. A slurry of activated charcoal on a dead empty stomach at night will mop much of this up. Methionine (500mg) will upregulate phase II liver methylation and metabolize circulating histamines.

Back off some, slow down. But you are on the right path. Steady on.

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