Do YOU wake up at 3am every night? Science guru reveals why so many people do... and how to beat the problem

If you're a unfortunate of disturbed sleep, you could beryllium successful luck. For one subject guru believes he whitethorn person solved nan mystery.

Dave Asprey, an writer and longevity influencer, has claimed that fluctuating humor sweetener — aliases glucose — levels are to blame. 

A dip successful these levels triggers nan merchandise of nan accent hormones cortisol and adrenaline, he said, which aftermath you up. 

In an Instagram video shared pinch his 1.1 cardinal followers, Mr Asprey said: 'For astir group who aftermath up betwixt 3 to 5am and can't spell backmost to sleep, it is usually [due to a] clang successful your humor sugar.'

He explained that cortisol and adrenaline trigger nan merchandise of other glucose, which, according to experts,  is stored successful nan liver and muscles.

'But nan problem is, cortisol and adrenaline aftermath you up,' said Asprey. 'While nan encephalon gets what it wants, you don't get your sleep.'

Instead, he recommended sufferers eat a 'small snack earlier bed' consisting of either 'raw honey, collagen, MCT lipid aliases operation each 3 together'.

MCT lipid is simply a supplement made up of triglycerides, a type of fat recovered successful coconut oil, thenar kernel oil, and immoderate dairy products that is easier to digest than different fats.

Limited investigation has suggested collagen, MCT lipid and chromatic — particularly Robinia, clover and unprocessed earthy chromatic — can provide sustained power without nan humor sweetener clang that tin travel from different sources. 

Mr Asprey is simply a multimillionaire who made his money successful Silicon Valley and is laminitis of the Bulletproof java nutrition brand. 

The biohacker, who boasts that he has astir six per cent assemblage fat, has spent $2million (£1.54million) of his ain money researching and testing his limits successful an effort to reverse nan ageing process.

He is 50 but has regularly made nan declare his 'lab tests' opportunity he has a biologic property of 39 and that he will unrecorded to 180. 

Research, however, besides suggests chronic accent tin raise levels of nan hormones cortisol and adrenaline which effect sleep. 

Cortisol is sometimes known arsenic nan accent hormone, but it plays a overmuch much analyzable domiciled successful nan body. 

There are receptors for nan hormone connected almost each portion of your body, according to the Cleveland Clinic. 

So erstwhile it gets released into nan bloodstream, it tin latch connected to and impact everything from nan immune strategy to muscles to your hair, tegument and nails. 

Experts person agelong advised that waking up during nan nighttime does not needfully mean you person insomnia, which figures propose affects up to 14million Brits. 

Still, slumber deprivation takes its ain toll, from irritability and reduced attraction successful nan short term, to an accrued consequence of obesity, bosom illness and diabetes. 

According to nan American Sleep Association, astir 70 cardinal Americans besides person a slumber disorder. 

It comes arsenic concerns person grown successful caller years complete Brits use of sleeping pills.

Latest NHS data shows nan number of prescriptions for narcotics for illustration Ambien (zolpidem) and zopiclone person hardly shifted complete nan past 5 years, contempt calls for a crackdown connected dishing retired powerful hypnotics. 

Advocates opportunity they tin beryllium a lifeline to those battling nan agony of sleeplessness.

But they tin beryllium addictive and users tin go progressively limited connected them to get to sleep.