Glycine for Better Sleep | A Perfect Pair with Magnesium

Are you apart of over 30% of the population (1) who struggle with insomnia and poor sleep? You need to start taking Glycine, found as a start ingredient in our Rest + Sleep formulation.

What is Glycine?

What is glycine I hear you ask, Glycine is one of the 11 amino acids made naturally in the body - because of it's natural occurrence it has been shown to improve sleep outcomes when taken prior to bed!

What does the research tell us?

Research has shown that a 3g dosage (what we've put in Rest + Sleep) Glycine improves subjective sleep quality and sleep efficacy. As well as showing positive changes to sleep onset. Not only improving actual sleep outcomes Glycine has also been shown to decrease daytime sleepiness to support overall energy stability across the day and improved performance of memory recognition tasks. 

Day-time influence: Struggling at work due to energy crashes or disruption overnight sleep by the kids? Subjects who had taken glycine within a recent study before sleeping showed less fatigue and drowsiness the next day and were more efficient when working. 

Temperature changes: Glycine has been found to impact sleep via its actions on reducing core body temperature. A 2007 study showed that glycine before bedtime decreased core body temperature in human subjects, one of the reasons we see such great overnight sleep improvements. 

Final Thoughts

Influencing both sleep quality and next day energy stability, glycine is an effective and easy to use (great tasting) amino acid found within our Rest + Sleep formulation to get your best sleep yet and meet your most productive slept no matter what your sleep (or lack thereof) looks like the night before. We've combined glycine with mangesium glycinate (magnesium attached to two molecules of glycine) for added benefits for overnight support to get you your best nights sleep yet!

 

REFERENCES: 

1. Ohayon M. M. (2002). Epidemiology of insomnia: what we know and what we still need to learn. Sleep Med. Rev. 6, 97–111 10.1053/smrv.2002.0186

2. Yamadera, W., Inagawa, K., Chiba, S. et al. Glycine ingestion improves subjective sleep quality in human volunteers, correlating with polysomnographic changes. Sleep Biol. Rhythms 5, 126–131 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1479-8425.2007.00262.x