Active Sweet Dreams for Insomnia
Today we bring you a topic that many of you will surely feel reflected in: insomnia.
As you well know, sleep is an essential function of the human body that allows the body to rest and recover.
However, many people suffer from insomnia or have difficulty falling asleep.
While there are prescription medications to treat these problems, there is a growing trend to use natural substances to improve sleep quality.
In this article, we will try to provide information about different natural substances that are present in the new formulation of Active Sweet Dreams and that will surely result in benefits.
What is insomnia?
The American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) has abandoned the distinction between primary and secondary insomnia and now includes the diagnostic category “insomnia disorder.”
The current classification considers insomnia to involve prolonged sleep latency, trouble staying asleep, and waking up early in the morning with an inability to go back to sleep. This disorder is also defined as a transdiagnostic symptom, which in turn serves as a starting point for many mental disorders, and where it is most closely related is depression.
These sleep symptoms have to be accompanied by daytime disturbances, such as decreased attention or concentration problems.
These must occur at least three times a week for a period of at least 3 months for an insomnia disorder to be diagnosed.
It is assumed that approximately 10% of the population in industrialized countries suffers from chronic insomnia.
According to recent treatment guidelines, insomnia is associated with high costs to the healthcare system and also with a high degree of suffering for people who suffer from it.
Conventional treatment consists of benzodiazepines, benzodiazepine receptor agonists, and other substances, such as sedative antidepressants.
Importantly, the diagnosis of insomnia, as with all other mental disorders, is based on the subjective experience of the affected individual and not on the criteria defined by polysomnography. As it is a fairly common condition in the population, an approach is necessary that allows different approaches based on non-synthetic molecules to be chosen. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-019-0411-y
To put more pressure on this issue, insomnia was the most common sleep disorder and one of the public health problems that increased the most during the covid-19 pandemic.
The totally restrictive lockdowns during the pandemic were interesting periods to examine the impact of environmental and behavioural changes on the onset of insomnia symptoms.
Why use natural substances?
There is a strong and deep-rooted global trend in the use of natural substances, to the detriment of biosynthetic drugs created in laboratories.
When talking about natural substances, there is the idea in the collective thought that they are usually less aggressive for the body, compared to biosynthetic drugs.
These drugs often have undesirable side effects that can affect the health of people who use them.
Conversely, natural substances tend to have fewer side effects and are less toxic to the body, which can reduce the risk of complications and improve the patient’s quality of life.
Another reason to promote their use is that natural substances are usually available without a prescription and in some cases, they can even be cheaper than biosynthetic drugs.
A bit of history
In the past, knowledge of traditional medicine was conceived in the form of sacred books, incantations, and folklore.
Materia Medica and other historical literature defined the preliminary guidelines for the authorization of natural medicines derived from plants.
Conventional medical practices adopted for the identification and authentication of natural remedies eventually framed the botanical-chemical approach to pharmacognosy in the early nineteenth century.
However, the last 200 years witnessed a substantial metamorphosis in the principles and practices of pharmacognosy and it has become an essential domain of modern pharmaceutical science as a high-tech multidisciplinary science of natural medicines.
In a contemporary context, the systematic study of natural medicines in terms of purity, potency, consistency, and safety have become the main topics of pharmacognosy.
In addition, most current drug discoveries have increasingly adopted approaches based on traditional medicine to increase outcomes and address safety concerns.
Active Sweet Dreams
At Salengei we have always worked on the development of better formulas that have the ability to provide efficacy and safety for our customers.
So we developed the first Active Sweet Dreams, which initially provided excellent solutions to insomnia problems.
Over time, and always in the search for continuous improvement, we have turned our gaze to the primitive formula in order to optimize it, to enhance its benefits and always taking into account the safety of the user and that is how we added some components and discarded others.
Below, we will briefly review some of its components and their benefit within the formulation of the new Active Sweet Dreams.
Aswhagandha
Ashwagandha – Withania somnifera – is a medicinal herb of the adaptogen group used in Ayurvedic medicine to improve sleep and reduce perceived stress through the reduction of cortisol.
One study found that administration of ashwagandha significantly reduced serum cortisol levels, which could contribute to improved sleep quality.
The treatment group that received the high-concentration full-spectrum ashwagandha root extract exhibited a significant reduction in scores on all stress assessment scales at day 60, relative to the placebo group.
In serum, cortisol levels were substantially reduced in the group that received ashwagandha, relative to the placebo group, so the findings of this study suggest that an ashwagandha root extract would effectively improve an individual’s resistance to stress and thus self-rated quality of life.
DOI: 10.4103/0253-7176.106022
Active Sweet Dreams contains KSM66 ashwagandha, a full-spectrum brand extract with the highest concentration available on the market today.
It is produced using a unique proprietary extraction process, based on the principles of “Green Chemistry”, without using alcohol or any other chemical solvents.
KSM-66 uses only the roots of the ashwagandha plant with absolutely no leaf additions
Melatonin
Melatonin is a hormone produced by the pineal gland that regulates the sleep-wake cycle.
Melatonin administration may help improve sleep quality in people with insomnia disorders.
The chronobiotic properties of melatonin have been shown to have value in the treatment of various circadian rhythm sleep disorders, such as jet lag or shift work sleep disorder.
A 2010 study found that melatonin administration significantly improved sleep quality in patients with sleep disorders compared to a placebo https://doi.org/10.1185/03007995.2010.537317
The formula of Active Sweet Dreams contains a unique ingredient, Melotime™, a slow-release and sustained melatonin that according to the claims of the trademark owner (Inventia Healthcare Ltd.) is released over 8 hours, releasing 50% of the dose in the first hour and the rest gradually in the other hours.
Rhodiola
Rhodiola is a genus of medicinal plants that originated in Asia and Europe and are traditionally used as adaptogenic, antidepressant, and anti-inflammatory remedies. Rhodiola plants are rich in polyphenols, and salidroside and tyrosol are the main bioactive marker compounds in standardized extracts.
Researchers have classified rhodiola rosea as an adaptogen due to its observed ability to increase resistance to various chemical, biological, and physical stressors.
In fact, in one study, a group of students were asked to take rhodiola and placebo for 20 days coinciding with an extended exam period.
Physical and mental performance was assessed before and after the period, based on objective and subjective assessment.
The most significant improvement in the group that took rhodiola was seen in physical fitness, mental fatigue, and neuromotor testing. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0944-7113(00)80078-1
Active Sweet Dreams contains 100 mg in each capsule suggested for intake.
Valerian
Valerian is a derivative of the plant that has long been used to aid sleep and anxiety.
A study of 100 postmenopausal women aged 50 to 60 years experiencing insomnia reported a statistically significant change in sleep quality in the intervention group compared to the placebo group.
DOI: 10.1097/gme.0b013e31820e9acf
In our Active Sweet Dreams formulation, 200 mg of valerian extract were incorporated, of which 0.6% correspond to valerenic acids.
Other components of this product are:
Passionflower extract 200 mg, of which contains 4 mg of flavonoids.
Hops extract, 40 mg, of which 0.04 mg correspond to rutin.
Melissa extract, 30 mg, of which 0.8 are rosmarinic acid
Magnesium 150 mg
Zinc 20 mg
Vitamin B6 6 mg
Conclusion
Insomnia is a disorder that afflicts a high percentage of the population and being a problem that generally occurs in the most productive age of life, it poses a high cost, both in the health system and in the workplace.
Because the physicochemical bases that produce it have not yet been discovered, an approach is being attempted that can include different alternatives to be able to attack different enclaves.
From pre-sleep relaxation, stress management, enhancement of different stages of sleep and regulation of neurotransmitters.
As is our custom, we have put all the resources of our laboratory in Salengei, aimed at improving an already existing formula of Active Sweet Dreams.
As you well know, we only use top quality and technically verified inputs in all its stages of production, with as many certifications as possible, to bring you a product that really works.
