Not being able to sleep really sucks! And not only that, it’s really bad for your health. Our bodies do their healing and repair while we’re in deep sleep. So if you’re not getting that deep, restorative sleep, your body isn’t repairing itself. But it’s common for people to have sleeping issues as they age, and my husband and I were no exceptions.
The truth is that three years ago our sleep wasn’t great. We’d go to bed and it would often take me ages to get to sleep even though I was tired. I’d be tossing and turning, while hubby would roll over and be asleep in seconds. It was so frustrating! He’d be snoring as I lay there, frustrated by my inability to fall asleep quickly like he did.
But it wasn’t all roses for hubby!
He’d be awake at 3am, and would end up getting up soon after because he’d then be the one tossing and turning, unable to get back to sleep.
In fact he was becoming so sleep deprived that he was falling asleep often during the day and even nodding off while eating meals. This was really unusual for him. Historically it’s always been me that nods off as soon as I stop moving (the ability to sleep anywhere kind of runs in my family…). I was getting worried about him.
Amongst all that, we both also used to be up two or three times every night to pee, which of course disturbed our limited sleep and contributed to us feeling even more tired in the morning.
We ditched the plants and got better sleep!
Two and a half years ago I switched to a mostly carnivore diet that sometimes included a small amount of berries and/or fermented veggies. Hubby soon followed my lead and switched to the same diet, but with the addition of home made sourdough bread, some honey and a bit more fruit at times.
Our diet prior to this had been quite clean and very highly plant based. We ate a lot of organic and home grown produce, and very little ultra-processed foods.
Within a couple of weeks of ditching the plants, we both noticed that our sleep improved.
We found that the toilet trips reduced to once per night, or sometimes none, and our sleep quality improved. I was falling asleep more easily. But he was still waking too early, and we’d both often feel like we hadn’t had quite enough sleep.
So we were still looking for answers.
Enter the grounding sheet
I’d been diving into information about the benefits of grounding for quite a number of years. I actually purchased my first grounding products, a mouse pad and a larger mat that now lives under my computer keyboard, way back around 2010.
Grounding products were much more expensive back then! Today they’re more affordable and you can buy two mats like my large one, plus grounding wrist bands from Amazon for about $50. When I bought mine, that little package would probably have cost three times as much. If you’re curious about these mats, you can check them out here.
Now, because hubby was still having problems staying asleep, I’d been toying with the idea of buying a grounding sheet for the bed. They’re a bit more of an outlay. But I figured that whether it helped him to stay in bed longer or not, it was going to be beneficial for our health to be grounded while we slept. So when our kids gave me some money for my birthday, I bit the bullet and bought one.
And it worked! Or at least it did to an extent…
