Reviews
We review everything from sleep supplements to sleep gadgets in order to help you find the right products to get the best night’s sleep.
The Best Sleep Supplements to Deal with All Nighters
If you’ve ever had to pull an all-nighter, you know that sometimes the hardest part is the day after. Whether you drink coffee, or take other stimulants to stay up through the night, the consequences of a sleepless night are…
The Secret to Lucid Dreaming? Reviewing Dream Leaf
Lucid dreaming enthusiasts tend to agree on one thing: The fact that lucid dreaming can be both learned and induced. While there are “natural-born lucid dreamers,” most of the folks currently partaking in the practice have worked hard to get…
Theanine vs Threonine: What You Need To Know
Theanine is one of the more common ingredients I see in sleep supplements: It’s in everything from New Mood (a personal favorite of mine from Onnit) to my favorite blend of ZMA (though many ZMA blends exist without theanine).…
Theanine vs Tyrosine: What’s the Difference?
Theanine is an increasingly common ingredient (at least from what I’ve tested) in sleep supplements. It has a calming yet non-sedative effect, which is why it’s in sleep supplement blends and added to some existing blends like ZMA. In fact,…
Theanine vs. GABA: Why These Supplements Are So Different
Theanine is one of my favorite supplements for fighting the effects of stress — it’s a calming amino acid usually found in green tea, and recent research backs the idea that it can have an anti-stress (but not necessarily…
ZMA vs. GABA: Why The Difference Is Important
ZMA and GABA are two ingredients that we commonly see in sleep supplements, but they’re very different things. For one, ZMA is actually a combo of three ingredients: Zinc asparate, magnesium aspartate, and vitamin B6. GABA (short for Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid),…
A Little Bit of Everything? Twilune by Dream Leaf Review
Dream Leaf is a company focused on supplements to induce lucid dreaming, but a number of other products on their roster. Dream Leaf’s sleep aid supplement, Twilune, stacks melatonin with herbs we have seen in many other sleep supplements…
Ancient Herbal Remedy? Reviewing Blissful Sleep by Maharishi Ayurveda
As someone drawn to natural supplements — and the occasional herbal remedy — it was only a matter of time before I tried an Ayurvedic supplement to help me sleep. Ayurveda is a traditional Indian medicine philosophy, has been around…
New Mood and Alpha BRAIN Together: A User’s Take
Though I’m most interested in sleep and recovery supplements — and testing them! — I’ve also experimented with some fairly mainstream, natural nootropics (aka brain supplements). One of those is Alpha BRAIN, a popular nootropic formula made by Onnit. Onnit …
An All-Natural, All-Day Calm? Reviewing Mind Herbs by Four Sigmatic
I’m always looking for new natural supplements to help me deal with stress and have a better night’s sleep. I recently came across Four Sigmatic (formerly Four Sigma) a company founded by Finnish guys with a love for adaptogenic herbs,…