Contrary to popular belief, natural sleep aids are not always those little pills you pop in your mouth thirty minutes before you lay your head down to sleep.
They are not also those funny-tasking teas concocted with the promise of restful slumber and sweeter dreams.
The most natural of sleep aids begin within you.
If you've been experiencing interrupted sleep during the night or the complete inability to get some sleep, you may think about going to the doctor for a prescription of some sleep medications.
The truth is that doctors support these medications because they do work.
The other truth they don't tell you is that, while they work, they also have the tendency to keep you dependent.
Doctors may not reveal the long term side effects of sleep medications.
That said, trying out the less drastic alternatives first is always a good move.
Experts recommend the inclusion of exercise in your lifestyle, and they have every rationale to back this up.
The best equation to sum up all rationales is, the more physical activity you do, the more energy you spend, thus the more energy your body needs to replenish through a good night's sleep.
People nowadays maintain sedentary lifestyles, and many claim they are too busy for exercise.
But a day's work of signing checks and meeting up with clients may not be enough to consume the calories one may have taken in during breakfast or lunch.
After dinner, the body may still be feeling the need to "burn", or is simply "not tired", and won't go to sleep no matter how you want it to.
Natural sleep aids are great if your entire body works to achieve an ultimate goal - optimum health.
With exercise, you are hitting several birds with a stone.
You burn calories, strengthen muscles, improve agility and resistance, and sleep better at night.