Too Stressed to Sleep? I’ve Got You Covered
The sweet-tasting amino acid that tackles your wide-awake hormones.
“Tick-tock,” said the clock in my head. The silent digital alarm next to me stood with its compact and mocking luminescent arms, their glow somehow penetrating my eyelids that had never been thinner. In a few short hours, I’d be presenting to a company about nutrition and mental health. I needed to switch off and sleep but my mind had other ideas.
Have I got all the adapters? Is my battery fully charged? Thank God I’m not flying EasyJet. Let’s run through my intro for the talk one more time…
Groan. My eyes crack open. One hour before that compact cube starts singing and I’ve got a presentation to make that requires heapings of energy and focus. Agh! Why can’t I sleep?
It’s not Sod’s Law that makes the only sleepless night you’ve had in years the very night before some big presentation or interview, or something. It’s your stress hormones. Adrenaline if you’re really amped up and cortisol if, like me that night, you’re a little nervous or excitable. But the good news is there exists a simple and tasty amino acid that tackles those poorly timed stress hormones and which can have you pushing zeds before you can say wakey-wakey.
