Sleep Nutrition
Receive the support of a dietitian and nutritionist for sleep problems and insomnia through personalized nutritional and lifestyle interventions and strategies, as well as a diet plan to help overall sleep.
How Can A Dietitian and Nutritionist For Sleep Problems Help
- Have your current diet and lifestyle habits analyzed by a nutritionist and dietitian who specializes in sleep problems such as insomnia to see where tweaks or changes can be made to improve the quality of sleep.
- Provide a dietary assessment that outlines key nutrients (calcium, magnesium, Vitamin A, Omega 3 fatty acids, and others, that support better sleep, and effectively reduce insomnia.
- Discuss the importance that diet plays in sleep quality, as well as some limitations.
- Review and discuss the importance of adequate overall intake of food energy, particularly macronutrient intake throughout your day.
- Assess micronutrient deficiencies and suggest ways of incorporating foods that can increase daily intake.
- Analyze your diet for alcohol and caffeine intake and provide guidelines around these, as well as strategies to limit their intake throughout the day.
- Provide healthful meal and snack combinations to reduce sleep problems.
- Ensure you consume nutrient-dense foods daily.
- Discuss and consider choosing a dietary pattern that is anti-inflammatory in nature.
- Discuss herbal supplements that have strong clinical evidence to help improve the quality of sleep, if desired.
- Have a personalized meal plan for sleep problems created.
- Seek the counsel of an eating disorder dietitian to help manage disordered eating patterns, emotional and stress eating, cravings, and so on.
- Work with other health practitioners, therapists and coaches to help improve the overall quality of sleep.
- Work with a sports dietitian to ensure proper fuelling for physical activity which, when sustained, can help improve sleep.
- Address other co-existing conditions by working with a dietitian for diabetic patients, dietitian for weight loss, IBS dietitian and more.
Sleep Nutrition Related Services
In-Person Appointments
Our dietitian and nutritionist for sleep and depression, as well as other health concerns conducts on-site, in-person sessions from our main dietitian office in Toronto, as well as Ottawa, Mississauga, Vaughan (Woodbridge), Hamilton, Scarborough, Halifax and Vancouver.
We also conduct virtual sessions with clients from across Ontario, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland & Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Winnipeg, Manitoba and British Columbia.
Contact us for a no-obligation phone consultation during which we can:
✓ outline how working with a nutritionist and dietitian looks like
✓ discuss your needs and goal(s)
✓ explain how billing and pricing work
✓ address concerns about insurance, if any
✓ answer any other questions
Also Available For Virtual Counselling
The most convenient way, however, to work with a dietitian and nutritionist who specializes in managing sleep problems such as insomnia is through online dietitian counselling.