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Holistic Sleep Support: Calm Your Mind and Body
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Do you ever feel restless when it’s time for sleep?
Like your mind or body just isn’t tired yet? If so, you are not alone. Sometimes your nervous system needs some help getting the message. That it’s late, you have a busy day tomorrow, and it’s time for bed
Sleep is essential for recharging your body and mind.
It helps ensure that you feel fresh and alert as you live your life. Sleep supports brain functions like concentration, clear thinking, and memory processing. It also helps regulate emotions, supports your ability to manage stress, consolidates memories for learning, and improves decision making and problem-solving abilities.
Sleep is important for your physical health too. Good sleep helps aid in the healing and repair of all muscles, tissues, and your individual cells. Additionally, sleep supports the immune system to fight off infections. Sleep also affects hormones that control appetite, which can influence body weight. In essence, sleep is as vital to our survival as food and water. It impacts nearly every type of tissue and system in your body.
Unfortunately, when sleep doesn’t come easily, its benefits remain just out of reach. There are many different reasons that you might have trouble getting to sleep or staying asleep through the night.
Outside factors like staying up late watching tv or looking at your phone can disrupt your sleep for hours after the lights go out. Internal thoughts and worries about family, work, finances, or even worrying about sleep itself can also make it hard to quiet your mind and find rest.
Sleep Tips: starting winding down 1 hr before your bedtime, stop screens and read a book; go to bed at a decent hour; replace your nightstand light with an LED Good Night bulb to help start melatonin production.
Melatonin helps support your natural sleep cycle
Melatonin is a hormone that plays a crucial role in initiating sleep. It is synthesized in the brain’s pineal gland. Its primary function is to regulate the body’s sleep-wake cycles. In essence, it helps keep your body in sync with the 24-hour cycle of the sun.
Melatonin production is halted during daylight hours. Then, as daylight fades and evening approaches, melatonin production increases. Throughout the night, elevated melatonin levels cue your body that it’s time to rest.
Get consistent melatonin levels throughout the night
Beyond aiding sleep, melatonin also contributes to cellular health. It functions as an antioxidant, scavenging free radicals, and bolstering the body’s endogenous antioxidant enzymes. By combating oxidative stress that damages cells, melatonin not only supports sleep but also enhances the body’s restorative activities during slumber.
Rest Complete, my bedtime ritual, is designed to align your body with the Earth’s natural cycle of light and darkness, fostering a more organic sleep rhythm. Taking Rest Complete roughly an hour before sleep can lead to reduced alertness, increased drowsiness, and ultimately sleep (this is what I’m talking about!).*
Helps you feel calm and eases your mind
Rest Complete contains Ashwagandha, which is known to have a myriad of health benefits. This potent herb is included in Rest Complete because it helps regulate cortisol and neurotransmitter levels, contributing to a balanced stress response.*
Ashwagandha has other benefits such as antioxidant properties, and physiological and psychological benefits. It is known to promote a sense of tranquility and aids in sustaining cognitive functions. This combination of benefits helps put your mind at ease, which is conducive to restful sleep.
Helps calm your nerves and muscles
Rest Complete contains GABA (Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid)—a neurotransmitter that helps to calm the body and mind by turning off wakefulness and quieting nerve activity. It also contains L-theanine, an amino acid that signals to your body that it needs to make more GABA too. This helps maintain elevated GABA levels in your body throughout the night.
In the realm of sleep regulation, GABA plays a pivotal role. When it’s time to rest, the GABAergic system intensifies its function, soothing the nervous system and inducing tranquility. This process aids in the shift from wakefulness to the initial sleep stage and beyond. Hormones such as melatonin target GABA receptors to further enhance the calming action of the GABAergic system.
Rest Complete is a comprehensive sleep supplement that helps your body and mind prepare for bedtime
Rest Complete contains:
✓ L-Theanine an amino acid commonly found in tea leaves that is well-studied for its contribution to sleep quality*
✓ GABA naturally occurring amino acid found in the brain that helps down regulate activity for a calming effect*
✓ Melatonin a hormone naturally produced in the pineal gland of the brain that signals the brain and body it’s time to sleep*
✓ Ashwagandha an adaptogenic herb traditionally used in Ayurvedic medicine to calm your mind and reduce anxiety*
