Give it up before bed: experts have named the products that cause nightmares

 Several studies have shown that eating certain foods before bed can seriously disrupt your sleep and cause you to experience unpleasant, vivid nightmares.

This is written by mirror.co.uk.

At the top of the list of foods that cause nightmares are cheese and milk.

You should also avoid sweet foods before resting, as they help heat the body.

A study published in Frontiers in Psychology looked at the relationship between diet and sleep. Of the 396 students who participated, 31% reported strange and disturbing dreams after eating cookies and brownies before bed.

In addition to being high in sugar, chocolate also contains caffeine, which can also interfere with sleep.

In third place were spicy or starchy foods, which can cause people to have vivid dreams due to their nutritional composition.

Next, this is bad news for junk food lovers, as it has been proven that fatty foods are the hardest for the body to digest. As a result, you may wake up more times during the night.

Finally, meat is another nightmare food because of the high amount of fat and protein it contains, making it difficult to break down.

When our bodies are hard at work digesting food, sleep is more likely to be interrupted, according to Dr. Charles Bay, M.D., a sleep medicine physician at the Cleveland Clinic Sleep Disorders Center.

He said: "Eating before bed can lead to more dreaming because late-night snacks increase metabolism and body temperature. Increased metabolism and temperature can lead to more brain activity, prompting more activity during rapid eye movement sleep, or REM." ".