WHEN YOU CAN'T SLEEP.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 307, 28 December 1934, Page 11

WHEN YOU CAN'T SLEEP.

A sleepless condition may be due to one of several causes, or to more than one cause. It may be purely physical in origin, and be due to indigestion, to eat-ino-°too heavy a supper, or to not having enough to eat, to being cold or hot; overtired or not tired enough. Often, however, sleeplessness is due to nerves that arc over-strained and to a brain that is anxious, worried, or too %etive. If you have been working too hard especially at hard mental work, then the brain becomes over-strained and sleeplessness results. What is one to do when one finds oneself in such a condition? If it can possibly be managed, a!jioliday is the best cure. A complete rest and change, even if only for a week or so, may prevent a serious breakdown if taken in time, and any effort that prevents a breakdown is worth'making. If a holiday is out of the question, then more rest and relaxation must be managed somehow. Try to work leas hard, to 'give up worry, to rest more, and to eat nourishing food. A tonic may put matters right temporarily, but if, as is probable, the overstrain has caused too rapid an encroachment upon the glucose reserve in the body, then that reserve should be made good. Fresh glucose stored up in the liver will give fresh energy and vitality. Besides glucose, calcium and phosphorus are necessary, and to ensure their absorption into the blood, l'itamin D is also required.