Deep Sleep: Natural Sleep Aid Supplement

Biohacker Review: This before-bed sleep stack helped me get through a brush with COVID

In January, my wife and I had a (thankfully mild) case of the wu-flu, of the Omicron variety we believe. In addition to feeling a bit oxygen-starved during the day the illness messed with my sleep; I found myself waking up in the middle night. Quality sleep is, of course, crucial to immune function and recovery. I began taking three capsules of Deep Sleep, proceeded by Just Relax (also by NeuroActive) which certainly helped me sleep through the nights.

As soon as we suspected we were dealing with COVID we began an aggressive immune support supplementation regime of Quercetin, NAC, Zinc, Vitamin C, and higher-dose liposomal Vitamin D3. Melatonin is also a highly efficacious COVID infection counter-measure that the Deep Sleep stack provided. With the supplements and good sleep, we managed to arrest and kick the COVID in about a week.

I've been getting some seriously solid sleep lately by actually using NeuroActive's anxiolytic stacks with some biohacking tech.

I fall asleep effortlessly, but the way I can tell I'm getting better sleep than ever is that in the first hour of my day upon waking, I don't find myself making little mistakes in my work on the computer. I know I've got some imperfect sleep when in the early morning I notice myself missing things; copy-pasting in the wrong place, misplacing meta-tags, leaving my toiletries in the wrong place in the bathroom, losing tracks of browser tabs, etc. Being cognitively on point by 7:30 AM is obviously great for my productivity!

About stacking sleep supplements with sleep tech, around 40 minutes before bedtime (often while enjoying a documentary), I will attach this PEMF device to the back of my head, entraining my brain with sedating delta waves. If I want to take this to the next level I'll simultaneously listen to a 0.5-4 Hz binaural beat, for auditory-induced entrainment.

IC Hummer

 

4.0

Category: Mind Hardware

Then I turn off the wifi, undress, get in bed, and for 10-15 minutes shine my red light therapy device on my back while I cuddle with my wife and we chit-chat about the day.

Red Light Therapy

 

5.0 (2)

Category: Mind Hardware

And I am out like a lark (are larks sleep hackers?)

Stacking Deep Sleep, Just Relax, PEMF, and the red light therapy I actually managed to get to sleep in about 10 minutes WITHOUT soothing rain noises playing in our bedroom - which, for the longest time, I needed to get to sleep as I have mild tinnitus. Quiet nighttime can be hell for those with Tinnitus as it's when our ears seem to scream at us the loudest, making it hard to get to sleep.

Let's look at a few of the stack's ingredients and discuss their synergies...

• Magnesium Glycinate - One of my favorite sleep supplements, Magnesium promotes crucial REM sleep that you need to maintain mental health, consolidate memory, and keep cognitive decline at bay. Deep Sleep backs a punch with 450 milligrams of the good stuff, Magnesium Glycinate. Tip: Supplement forms that end with -ate are usually better-absorbed.
• Melatonin - This household name hormone underlies the circadian mechanisms that put us to sleep when the time is right. This stack has just three milligrams which might seem vanishingly small but actually, that's all the melatonin you would want to supplement unless you were trying to get through illness.
• Valerian Root Extract - An herbal sleep used since time immemorial in traditional Asian and European medicine. There are over 14 published scientific papers on “nature’s Valium” - as it's sometimes called.
• Passion Flower Extract - A German clinical trial concluded that this GABAergic nutriceutical is a full-spectrum mental health and well-being hack, 12 weeks of dosage mitigated disturbed sleep and nervous restlessness while improving stress resistance and general quality of life.
• B-Vitamins - Are not really sedating but they play important roles in the regulation of healthy sleep cycles and deficiencies will hurt your sleep quality or can even cause insomnia. It includes Vitamin B3 (Niacin) which is actually super-important, your PARP system needs it to repair while you sleep the damage that EMFs do to your genes (another good reason to turn off the wifi at bedtime).
• Zinc Glycinate- The brain's dark horse, according to a Swiss research paper. There are over 10 clinical trials studying its effects as a natural regulator of sleep. A landmark 2011 clinical trial found it shared synergies with melatonin and magnesium, together they're a dream team for insomniacs badly in need of some shut-eye.

About product

✔ Improves sleep efficiency and quality, prolongs sleep and reduces fatigue
✔ Significantly reduces time to fall asleep and eases insomnia
✔ Decreases markers of stress and every-day anxiety
✔ Non-habit-forming and easy on the body and stomach
✔ Induces feelings of calmness and balance, supports the nervous system

from goneuroactive.com

About NeuroActive

This is a new vendor that I'm pleased to be working with serving European Biohackers, a good group of folks that sometimes have trouble getting their hands on quality Nootropics and anti-aging stuff, especially since Brexit and COVID policies have made importing packages even trickier in the European Union. Good news, NeuroActive is based in the EU (actually, they are in Bulgaria where I live) so they can deliver reliably here on the continent minimizing the hassle of paperwork and negotiating with import office bureaucrats.