ABSTRACT
Fifty to 70 million Americans have chronic problems with sleep. Adequate, quality sleep is crucial to good health yet there are many medical barriers to achieving it. Only 60% of physicians ask their patients about the quality of their sleep and only 20% of patients initiate a conversation about their sleep problems with their physicians.1 The biologic basis of these disturbances may be inuenced by nutrition. This chapter presents diet, food, and nutrient strategies as adjunct interventions in a primary care setting.
