Golden Life

Sleep Care

Sleep Care
sleep care


Amount Per Serving

Ingredients

60  mg

Valeriana offcinalis root extract

125 mg

Passifora incarnata fruit extract

  • Improves sleep quality
  • Reduces sleep onset latency
  • Corrects sleep disturbances
  • Relaxes the nervous system
  • Reduces  nervous  tensions  and anxiety

Valerian
Scientific name: Valeriana offcinalis

Valeriana offcinalis, a flowering plant, which has been widely used to treat sleep disturbances. 
Traditional use for:
•Mental relaxation
•Aid to natural sleep
Well-established use for:
•Mild nervous tensions
•Difficulty if falling asleep

Valerian stimulates the release of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and inhibits the enzymatic breakdown of GABA. Valerian possibly blocks, and reverses, the reuptake of GABA, thus leading to high concentration of GABA in synaptic cleft. Valerian may as well act as a precursor of GABA synthesis.
Valepotriates has been shown to confer anxiolytic effects on psychic symptoms of anxiety.  Also, it has been effective in reducing sleep  latency  (the  time  it  takes  to  fall  asleep) and  improving  sleep  quality  and efficiency among insomniacs.

Clinical studies have indicated the effectiveness of valerian approximately identical to diazepam and chlorpromazine. 


Passion Flower Fruit
Scientific name: Passifora incarnata

It is stated to have sedative, hypnotic, antispasmodic and anodyne properties.  
Passifora incarnata is used in folk medicine as anxiolytic and sedative for anxiety and insomnia symptoms, also applied in neuralgia, generalized seizure, hysteria, nervous tachycardia, spasmodic asthma.
The  exact  mechanism  of  passion  flower  on reducing  anxiety  is  unknown,  though  inhibition of  monoamine  oxidase  (MAO)  and  activating receptors  of  the  gamma-aminobutyric  acid (GABA)  may play an important role.
Inhibition of MAO causes the accumulation of endogenous catecholamines (serotonin, norepinephrine and dopamine) in the brain. This explains the possible antidepressant mechanism of passifora  incarnata
 

Oral, take 1  tablet  1-2  hours before sleep  or  consult  with  your  physician.


Contraindications
No contraindications have been reported to date. 


Interaction
Please consult with your physician in case you take medications causing sleepiness or drowsiness.
Concurrent use of valerian with alcoholic beverages should be avoided!

Very high doses of valerian (way beyond the amount found in this supplement) may cause gastrointestinal discomfort, headache, restlessness and heart dysrhythmias.

01/06