Tried every sleep aid and still up at 3am? 6 reasons people who spent hundreds on sleep aids are sleeping through the night with a hot cocoa
Jess fell asleep in a folding chair at her son's soccer game, third coffee in the cup holder, and missed his first goal of the season. In the car he asked if she saw it. She said yes.
Jess is 41 and runs a house-painting crew in Columbus, Ohio. For 2 years she was on 3 coffees by 2pm, wide awake at 11 and up again at 3.
She spent $713 on gummies, PM pills, magnesium, a weighted blanket and a sleep ring. Here are the six things that changed it, starting with the goal she slept through.
The one that worked is a hot cocoa, one scoop, 30 minutes before bed.
1. She slept through her son's first goal of the season
Saturday, 2pm. Jess was in a folding chair at her son Eli's soccer game with her third coffee of the day in the cup holder. She closed her eyes for a second.
When she opened them, the other parents were clapping and Eli was running back to midfield with his arms up. His first goal of the season. In the car he asked, "Did you see it, Mom?" She said yes.
That night she was wide awake at 11 and up again at 3:05.
Stop waking up at 3am2. $713 of sleep aids in one kitchen drawer
Over 2 years Jess bought melatonin gummies in 3 strengths, PM pills, a magnesium powder, lavender spray, sleepy tea, a weighted blanket, a white-noise machine and a sleep ring. One night at 3:30 she added up the receipts: $713.
The gummies got her to sleep and wore off by 3. The PM pills left her foggy on a ladder until 10. The magnesium relaxed her legs and did nothing about the list running in her head at 11.
She stopped wearing the ring because the numbers made her feel worse.
Sleep through the night3. The engineer who tracked 30 nights of her sleep and found the same break at 3am
Her friend Marcus is an engineer who builds the monitors sleep labs use. He had her wear the ring again for 30 nights. Every night her sleep line broke between 2:50 and 3:20. "You've got three problems," he said.
"At 11 you're still going over tomorrow's jobs in your head. Then you toss because your body's still tense. Then between 2 and 4 your stress hormones start climbing, right when sleep is at its lightest.
Nothing in that drawer works on all three, so whatever it misses keeps you up."
Fix all three in one cup4. One hot cocoa for the racing thoughts, the tossing and the 3am wake-up
Marcus had been testing Mellow against his own sleep graph for 2 months. It's a hot cocoa with no melatonin: one scoop in hot water or milk, 30 minutes before bed.
For the list running in her head at 11, L-theanine quiets the racing thoughts without knocking you out. For the tossing, magnesium glycinate relaxes your muscles.
For 3am, ashwagandha lowers cortisol, the stress hormone that climbs before dawn: in its own 60-day trial it dropped 28% against 8% on placebo. He gave her a pouch from his pantry.
Get the cocoa Marcus drinks5. Night 1 she still woke at 3. By week 3 her crew noticed.
Night 1: she woke at 3:10 and was back asleep by 3:40, instead of lying there until 5. Night 9: the first night in 2 years she slept through 3am.
Week 2: asleep by 11:15 most nights, and 2 coffees instead of 3. Week 3: Andre, the 23-year-old on her crew, asked why they'd stopped pulling into the gas station for coffee at 2.
Week 4: Marcus put her new graph next to the old 30 nights and laughed. "Where'd your 3am go?"
Sleep past 3am6. Eli scored again. This time she saw it.
On the last Saturday of the season, Eli scored in the second half. Jess was at the sideline with one coffee, half full, and yelled so loud he turned and pointed at her.
In the car she walked him through the whole goal. She falls asleep by 11:15 now and sleeps past 3. One pouch is 30 cups. Your first box comes with a free sleep mask and frother, and shipping is free.
If you aren't sleeping better within 60 nights, email us and we refund every dollar, and you keep the pouch.
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