Info: 60 Vegetable Capsules
To help ease your restlessness or anxiety naturally and rebalance your body's natural circadian rhythm so you can get to sleep more quickly and try to get your full eight hours, Sleep⁸ combines a number of the most effective natural sleep aids with a long history of safe, non-addictive use.
Info: 60 Vegetable Capsules
To help ease your restlessness or anxiety naturally and rebalance your body's natural circadian rhythm so you can get to sleep more quickly and try to get your full eight hours, Sleep⁸ combines a number of the most effective natural sleep aids with a long history of safe, non-addictive use.
Product Notes:
Sleep More, Sleep Better, Sleep Eight
Sleep 8 features a synergistic combination of 8 natural ingredients intended to help you to fall sleep quicker and to have a more restful sleep, hopefully for the full 8 hours you should allot to yourself to sleep.
Several of them – Chamomile, Hops, Passionflower, Skullcap – are likely quite familiar to North Americans and Europeans as traditional means of reducing stress or anxiety and/or to help induce relaxation and prepare for sleep or to remain asleep, and the inclusion of Magnesium and Melatonin for these purposes will come as no surprise, either. These ingredients all figure into many other sleep and relaxation products offered by other natural health products brands.
Two others may seem a bit counter-intuitive, however, given what else we may associate with these terms, but rest assured, there are both studies and a history of usage backing them up. We know the first, catnip, as something that can make cats ecstatic or frantic with excitement, but paradoxically, it does not have that effect on all species: it can actually help humans – and young chickens – relax. Consequently, that ingredient is also included in another natural health product we carry which is designed for relieving restlessness or attention deficit disorder in youth (LTO3 Junior).
Finally, even though it has "ginseng" as part of its formal name, Panax notoginseng – otherwise known as Chinese ginseng or Qiye Shen’an Pian – is not stimulating in the way that some other types of ginseng are; it has a wide range of uses in Traditional Chinese Medicine and has been the subject of many studies, including for relieving general anxiety disorder and insomnia.
Sleep8 Ingredients:
Each vegetable capsule contains:
35 mg Chamomile (Matricaria recutita) flower extract, 5% flavonoids
35 mg Hops (Humulus lupulus) strobile extract, 3.5% flavonoids
35 mg Passionflower (Passiflora incarnata) flower extract, 4% flavonoids
35 mg Skullcap (Scutellaria lateriflora), 12.5% flavonoids
25 mg Qiye Shen'an Pian (Panax notoginseng) saponins leaf extract
20 mg Magnesium (from 111 mg of magnesium bisglycinate)
15 mg Catnip (Nepeta cataria) herb top
500 mcg Melatonin
Non-medicinal ingredients: Vegetable magnesium stearate and silicon dioxide in a non‑GMO vegetable capsule composed of vegetable carbohydrate gum and purified water.
Suggested Usage:
Adults: Take from 1 to 4 capsules either at or before bedtime, or as directed by your healthcare practitioner. Consult a healthcare practitioner for use beyond 4 weeks.
Warnings:
Consumption with alcohol, other medications, and/or natural products with sedative properties is not recommended. Do not drive or use machinery for 5 hours after taking. Exercise caution if involved in activities requiring mental alertness.
Do not use if you are pregnant or breastfeeding, or if you are taking cyclosporine or immunosuppressive drugs, or are allergic to plants of the Asteraceae/Compositae/Daisy family.
Consult a healthcare practitioner prior to using New Roots Sleep-8 if you have depression, a hormonal disorder, diabetes, liver disease, kidney disease, cancer, endometriosis, cerebral palsy, seizure disorders, migraine, or hypertension, or if you are taking blood pressure, blood thinning, antidepressant or sedative/hypnotic medications.
Consult a health care practitioner if symptoms worsen or persist continuously for more than 3 weeks (chronic insomnia).
Hypersensitivity (e.g. allergy) has been known to occur; in which case, discontinue use. Some people may experience drowsiness. Exercise caution if operating heavy machinery, driving a motor vehicle or involved in activities requiring mental alertness.
Health Canada Natural Product Number: 80031162.
Supporting Science:
"Phytochemical and biological analysis of skullcap (Scutellaria lateriflora L.): a medicinal plant with anxiolytic properties." Phytomedicine. 2003.
"The effect of melatonin, magnesium, and zinc on primary insomnia in long-term care facility residents in Italy: a double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2011.
"Herbal medicine for depression, anxiety and insomnia: a review of psychopharmacology and clinical evidence." [re: Passionflower & Skullcap] European Neuropsychopharmacology. 2011.
"A review of sleep disorders and melatonin." Neurological Research. 2017.
"New perspectives on the role of melatonin in human sleep, circadian rhythms and their regulation." British Journal of Pharmacology. 2018.