Whether it is good to drink plain milk at night before going to bed varies from person to person. Healthy people can drink milk at night before going to bed in moderation.
Generally speaking, healthy people have the following benefits of drinking milk before going to bed.
1. Calcium: Milk is rich in calcium, and human blood calcium is at a lower level at night, drinking a cup of pure milk before going to bed can make the calcium in the milk is fully absorbed by the body, which helps to maintain the concentration of blood calcium. For young people in the growth and development period and the lack of light for adults, sleep at night drinking pure milk has a very good effect of calcium.
2. Help sleep: milk contains tryptophan, has a sedative effect, can make the brain’s thinking activity can be temporarily inhibited, thus helping the human body sleep at night.
However, for the elderly, poor sleep quality, lactose intolerant people, it is not recommended to drink pure milk before going to bed, otherwise it is easy to increase the number of times due to the increase in sleep. In addition, milk is not a cure for insomnia, so if you have medical needs, please be sure to go to a regular medical institution.