Do you realize that if you regularly wake up in the morning feeling completely exhausted, even though you may believe you’ve had a restful night’s sleep, you might be suffering from what’s called “chronic exhaustion?” This is a medical condition caused by an infection. The enemy is a form of yeast called candida albicans, and this grows throughout your body if you pay little attention to your overall diet. It’s also quite probable that you may be consuming large amounts of refined and processed foods, have a significant sugar addiction, and/or you might also be otherwise out of balance because of a variety of prescription medications or strong antibiotics.

Even knowing this information, most people from all “walks of life” still usually ignore holistic nutrition guidelines and enjoy bad eating habits to such an extreme that they become irritable, develop sleep issues, have mood swings, experience chronic fatigue and an overall feeling of general impairment. The symptoms may not be particularly severe but taken together will certainly have a detrimental effect on your daily life. Most people do not realize that they have a candida problem and should address their diets.

As you get older, it’s not so easy to get a restful night’s sleep anymore. There are wide variety of obvious reasons for this, poor timekeeping usually being the biggest culprit. Ideally, you should strive to go to bed at the same time each evening, which for most us will be a little before or after the 10 o’clock hour. The human body is generally accustomed to having the most restful period of sleep during this time, and therefore you should strive for eight hours every night, without exception. Melatonin is one of the most amazing natural antioxidants, and its primary task is to assist with repairing the damage which you’ve amassed during your waking existence, by cleaning up free radicals and other dangerous toxins. Don’t disrupt the natural cycles of nature.

Many of us are used to eating the largest meal of the day almost within sight of our bedtime. Dietary experts recommend that you should leave at least three hours between your final meal and your bedtime, as otherwise your body will be busy digesting the food in your stomach and intestines and will not be able to allocate the correct resources to sleep-repair work. Even worse is the folly of those who have a significant snack immediately before they turn in. The body has very little chance of correctly resetting itself and over a period of time this will most certainly lead to problems. There seems little point in adding fuel just before a period of inaction, don’t you think? This is exactly what we’re doing if we eat late and then try and sleep. Your body is acclimatized to processing instructions and does not realize that it should pause its digestive action while you try and sleep.

You are what you eat and if your diet is high in sugars and processed or bad foods, you risk amassing a significant candida problem. Not only do you want to sleep better, but you want to stave off the threat of illnesses and diseases such as diabetes and cancer. Don’t leave it until you have developed these significant symptoms, and then kick yourself for not considering holistic health solutions before. A sugar addiction is a serious health threat.