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Yes, CBD can help you sleep and with sleep disorders. However, that doesn’t mean you need to use it before bed in order to get the benefits from it. CBD helps you sleep by helping you manage the cause of your sleepless nights – stress.
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Our lives are more stressful than ever.
Gone are the days when you leave the office at 5 and forget about it until tomorrow. We’re living in a 24-hour world, where we can always be on. Emails can reach us out of office hours. People can call us anytime, including the boss. Our working day is no longer defined by 9-5.
Not only that, but we’re all guilty of rushing from place to place, particularly if you live in a city or town. All of this impacts our stress levels without considering intense exercise, deadlines, and social lives.
Interesting fact. Did you know Netflix’s biggest competitor isn’t another TV streaming service? It’s sleep.
How can CBD help you sleep?
CBD helps you sleep in two ways. First of all, it has an anxiolytic effect and releases norepinephrine, dopamine and serotonin. All of which are feel-good chemicals. Feel good, feel less stressed.
CBD also has a neurogenerative effect and improves cognitive function. Perfect if you are feeling overwhelmed thinking about solving problems or tasks for the day ahead. No more tossing and turning, going over and over things.
Do I vape CBD before bed?
No, it isn’t necessary to need to vape CBD before bed. Use CBD anytime during the day to help you get to sleep. You can also try using full spectrum CBD which provides added benefits to using CBD isolate. This provides you with the added bonus of terpenes found within the cannabis plant. Find out about these here.
How shall I take CBD to help me sleep?
The most bioavailable ways to take CBD is to vape it or use the drops on the inside of your cheek or under your tongue. This enters your bloodstream quicker than other methods. There are other ways, such as edibles and creams, however, it takes much longer to get into your system. Not only that, but edibles will also mix the CBD with digestive juices, making it less concentrated.
However, the best way to take CBD for sleep or anything else, is how you feel it works for you.
Can CBD help sleep disorders
Research has found that CBD has therapeutic potential to improve insomnia. It also has shown promise in helping REM behaviour disorder in people with Parkinson’s and those who suffer from excessive daytime sleepiness.
People who suffer from sleep issues due to anxiety can also benefit from the use of CBD. Anxiety, OCD and PTSD have all been found to be reduced with the use of CBD. In a study involving 72 adults with anxiety and poor sleep, it was found that when using CBD their anxiety scores decreased and sleep scores improved.
CBD may help those who suffer from REM behaviour disorder. This is a condition that causes people to act out during a dream when in the REM phase of sleep. Usually, during REM the body is still and basically paralysed. This prevents people from acting out their dreams, beyond the odd twitch. When someone has REM behaviour disorder, they risk injuring themselves or others as they act out dreams or walk in their sleep.
Where can I buy CBD to help me sleep?
You can buy CBD here. You have the option of various concentrations and types, from tincture drops and e-juices to CBD flowers. Click here to see how you choose the correct concentration when you are just starting to buy CBD.
5 ways CBD helped me sleep
I have never been a great sleeper. I’m one of those people who seem to take ages to drift off, then when I finally do I wake at the smallest noise, thought, dream. Once I wake, it is near impossible to get back.
I’ve tried it all. Meditation. Yoga. Various wave sounds. Blackout. But nothing calms my mind. That was until I found that CBD helped me sleep. Not only to fall asleep, but to stay asleep!
Here are the 5 ways CBD helped me sleep like no other method would.
- Calmed my mind
I’m a busy person. I have a mental load the equivalent of a 10 tonne lorry. When my head hit the pillow before I found CBD, these thoughts would race. I’d end up checking my phone before bed or writing myself reminders for the morning.
Having thousands of thoughts racing around your mind makes it pretty difficult to drift off and find peace.
When someone told me CBD could help me sleep I didn’t quite believe it. I thought that nothing (not even drowsy meds) could calm this whirling and whizzing mind.
However, a week into taking the oil I found that my mind calmed down. The mental load could wait until tomorrow. Right now, was sleeping time. Those thoughts zipping about like race cars were parked up, headlights off.
- Gave me a ritual
Routine is an important part of going to bed and unwinding. Anyone who has known or had babies will understand the importance of a bedtime routine for little people. But – the need for it doesn’t actually stop!
Even us adults need some down time before we hit the pillow. I always struggled to find a ritual. Usually there were too many work emails or a late night Watsapp drama drawing me in.
Finding CBD created a ritual. Every night I would make myself a herbal tea and squeeze a few drops of the oil in it. Sitting down with this tea, would encourage me to pick up my book. Then when the CBD started to take effect I wasn’t fussed about looking at my phone, I was ready to turn out the lights and doze.
- Relaxed my body
I’m an active person and even at night I thrash around. I found that CBD helped me sleep better by relaxing my whole body, not just my mind. I wasn’t tossing and turning and getting tied up in knots with the duvet.
I just lie still and let sleep come.
- It made me dream
CBD dreams can be pretty wild. I’d not really known about it as a side effect but it’s a pretty welcomed one. I love decoding the dreams in the morning and working out why I was dreaming in the way I was.
- I was less anxious
Those thoughts about what I said to someone the day before or even years ago plague me in the small waking hours! When I was taking CBD daily before bed, I noticed that if I woke up in the night, anxious thoughts about what I said, didn’t say, did, didn’t do, would no longer come.
Bliss! I seemed to be able to rest so much easier without worries and anxieties, even about work and personal issues.
How CBD helped me sleep
CBD helped me sleep so much better. I fell asleep easier and stayed asleep. If I was to wake then it was no 2 hour mission to drift back off again.
I take a daily dose of Our Remedy, Pretty Peaceful. It has other essential oils which are known to help with sleep as an added bonus. Oh, and it actually tastes nice too! Can’t say that about all of them.