I Can't Sleep!

Neither can I.  Partly due to age, partly due to worry, but I just don't sleep that well anymore. Well, I used to not be able to sleep.

A couple of months ago I read an article in First magazine about insomnia. One of the recommendations was to take magnesium, which helps not only with insomnia, but also with restless legs (yep, I had those too, hitting right at 9:00 every night) and night sweats (don't have those yet, but I'm sure they are coming.  Yay perimenopause!).  Apparently magnesium deficiency is a big cause of insomnia, restless legs, etc.  Who knew?

The product recommended is Natural Vitality Natural Calm.  I like the orange flavor. Follow the directions on the package, just mixing the powder into water a couple of times a day (actually, I've found that once a day, about 2 p.m., works well for me). The flavor is just slightly citrusy, and it's fizzy like Alka-Seltzer.  Using a water soluble powder works well to help your body absorb the magnesium. There is also another benefit besides insomnia help:  it keeps everything, uh, moving.  If you know what I mean. And I think you do.

I bought my Natural Calm on Amazon, and the first time I took it, I slept all night for the first time in I don't know how long.  I don't care if it was a placebo effect.  I'm just glad that it works quickly (I am a teensy bit impatient), and that it keeps working.  I'm on my second package.  It's not cheap, but an 8 oz. container lasts me about a month.  50 cents a night for good sleep?  Sold!

So I still have all my worries, it's just that I don't lie awake at 3:30 a.m. (unless things are really really bad) doing math (and it's always subtraction...) in my head, ruminating on the state of my finances, my life, my family, the world.  I save it for when I'm awake, which is better (no, really) because things always seem much worse in the middle of the night. And I feel like I'm a bit calmer during the day now (which would be why they call it the "anti-stress drink" on the label).  Now I can sleep almost every night, for most of the night.  Perhaps I wake up for a few minutes here and there, but I usually don't have the endless mind-racing, tossing-turning, panic-inducing insomnia that has been plaguing me for a very long time.   Give Natural Vitality Natural Calm a whirl.