{"id":1666,"date":"2011-07-04T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/blog\/?p=1666"},"modified":"2011-08-09T02:17:22","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T06:17:22","slug":"this-helps-hypertensive-folks-sleep-better-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2011\/07\/04\/this-helps-hypertensive-folks-sleep-better-study\/","title":{"rendered":"This Helps Hypertensive Folks Sleep Better, Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2011\/07\/04\/this-helps-hypertensive-folks-sleep-better-study\/imagescaenmc5j\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1660\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/blog\/home\/blueher1\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/imagesCAENMC5J-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"imagesCAENMC5J\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1660\" \/><\/a>One of the most common side effects from blood pressure medications is poor sleep. In many people, poor sleep can contribute to increased appetite and weight gain \u2013creating a vicious cycle. Taking melatonin, a natural sleep aid, can counteract the insomnia caused from \u00df-Blocker anti-hypertension medications, notes a study presented this week in the 25th annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies. <\/p>\n<p>In this research, men with high blood pressure taking daily \u00df-blocker medications were given a small dose of 5mg of melatonin before bedtime. They found that melatonin significantly boosted sleep time and sleep quality in nearly all research subjects.<\/p>\n<p>More natural supplements to help you <a href=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/bloodpressure\">fight high blood pressure&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/insomnia\/\">Natural method to sleep better\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Warm regards,<\/p>\n<p>Christian Goodman<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most common side effects from blood pressure medications is poor sleep. In many people, poor sleep can contribute to increased appetite and weight gain \u2013creating a vicious cycle. Taking melatonin, a natural sleep aid, can counteract the insomnia caused from \u00df-Blocker anti-hypertension medications, notes a study presented this week in the 25th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-sleep"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}