More than Melatonin: How to Get the MOST out of Your Night’s Sleep

How much sleep do you need? Experts say 8-9 hours of sleep each night is the optimal amount required to rejuvenate your body and brain, so you can wake up feeling rested. But that’s only if you can get quality sleep—and in today’s age, good sleep is increasingly hard to achieve—even if you are lucky enough to get a full 8 hours. (But who is!?) The truth is, the average American only sleeps around 6 hours each night, and up to 40% are chronically sleep deprived. With so many of us struggling to get a good night sleep or to stay asleep throughout the night, we need to uncover WHY we aren’t sleeping, and WHAT we can do about it.

Restless nights and insomnia spells can impact how you feel not only the next day, but overtime as well. What is causing your sleep disturbance? There are many factors that interfere with your body’s natural sleep cycles and circadian rhythms, and may be what is preventing you from getting the deep, reparative rest you need each night.  

Common sleep disruptors include: 

• mental stress 
• neurological issues 
• digestive and microbiome imbalances 
• chronic and acute pain 
• hormone imbalances 
• infections 
• chronic inflammation 
• excess sugar consumption 
• alcoholic beverages  
• blue light exposure from screen-based devices 

Sound familiar? If your daily routine or lifestyle contains these common sleep disruption factors, your natural sleep rhythms will be derailed, making it harder for your body to enter a deep, relaxed state needed for nighttime body repair and rest to happen. 

After a long night of tossing and turning, getting little sleep, or insomnia spells, you probably wake up feeling under the weather. Why? Your body hasn’t had enough rest time to provide sleep repair benefits that you need to feel your best.  

You may notice the initial impacts of poor-quality sleep early on. These include:  

• morning grogginess 
• fatigue throughout the day  
• brain fog 
• increased sugar cravings 
• mood swings 
• and more 

Over time, bad sleep or little sleep will impair your body’s natural repair processes that help you feel refreshed and energized, and more serious health impacts can emerge. Health complications from lack of sleep or poor sleep include those related to immune imbalances, body weight and metabolism, cardiovascular health, cellular behavior, neurological health, and cognitive function, and much more. This is why more and more people are reaching for sleep aids like melatonin, to help them get the rest they need.  

But do these sleep supplements help? 

While a good sleep supplement is supposed to help you fall and stay asleep, it’s also supposed to help you feel refreshed the next day. But most sleep support formulas—including supplements like melatonin—leave you feeling foggy and tired the next morning, and that feeling can last all through the day. While some sleep support supplements may knock you out initially, they can also drain your energy and vitality the next day. No one likes feeling “out of it” all day.

You have probably heard of melatonin as a sleep supplement. What is melatonin?  Melatonin is a master hormone that regulates our circadian rhythms, aka our sleep/wake cycles. It’s normally released by the pineal gland in response to darkness, so we can fall asleep in harmony with natural day/night diurnal rhythms.   

But when we stay up late on screens or partake in other poor-sleep habits, it can disrupt our natural melatonin production—and cause major sleep disturbances.   

This is one of the reasons that the inexpensive sleep supplement, melatonin, is often used to support relaxation and deep sleep, and refueling the body with this relaxation hormone.  People take melatonin for sleep support throughout the night,  to unwind in the evening, or before they fall asleep to promote a relaxed state of mind, and stay asleep through the night. 

If you have taken melatonin before, you’ve probably noticed that you feel tired the next morning, and that your energy doesn’t sustain throughout the day. Depending on how much you take, and if you increase your dosage over time, this side effect of next-day drowsiness can be strong and significant. While promoting deeper and better sleep is essential for your health, it isn’t helpful if it costs you your energy, and causes you to not feel your best during your waking hours.

Next-day drowsiness isn’t just common for melatonin, it can also happen with other natural sleep aids, including herbs like kava kava and valerian root.  

If you’re still feeling tired after a full night of slumber, and you have taken a nighttime sleep supplement, it’s a sign that you’re not getting the total-body rejuvenation and repair benefits that are supposed to come with truly restful sleep.  

What are the benefits of a sleep support supplement that works? 

The best sleep aids will provide health benefits to your whole body, and make you feel rested and ready for the day—because they ensure that your sleep is optimized for total-body rejuvenation and repair. 

The benefits of deeply restful sleep are powerful, and include: 

• A clearer, calmer mind by removing toxins from your brain  
• Optimizing your energy and metabolism all day 
• Strengthening your immune defenses 
• Repairing damaged cells, tissues and organs 
• Enhancing detox pathways to cleanse your body 
• And much more!

Melatonin as a sleep aid can be helpful—in small amounts. To achieve transformative ‘beauty sleep’ that you can actually feel, melatonin needs to be balanced with other ingredients that actively repair your sleep and rejuvenate your brain and body. The best sleep supplements promote deep, restful, restorative sleep that helps you feel refreshed and energized the next day. 

ecoSleep is not your average sleep aid. This first-in-class holistic sleep support and repair formula works to ease your mind and body into a gentle state of relaxation and calm, so you can fall asleep more easily, and stay asleep. A small amount of melatonin in the formula, combined with natural GABA support with powerful extracts, helps encourage healthy circadian rhythms without causing next-day drowsiness or dependency.* 

Even more importantly, once you’re asleep, the formula’s unique botanical blends—drawn from Traditional Asian herbalism—work synergistically to rejuvenate and restore your body while you sleep, providing optimal function in key organs and systems,* including:   

• Liver  
• Kidneys  
• Respiratory system  
• GI tract and digestion 
• Brain and nervous system   
• Immunity   
• and other key areas   

These broad-spectrum benefits are what make ecoNugenics’ ecoSleep so effective as a comprehensive sleep repair and total-body rejuvenation formula.*  

And because ecoSleep contains powerhouse herbs that actively promote your body’s nighttime renewal processes, many people report that they feel refreshed and energized with ecoSleep, even if they get less than 8 hours of sleep.*  

ecoSleep  gives you the deep, restful and reparative sleep you need to optimize your overall health and vitality, the way a good night’s sleep should. Repair your sleep today and say goodbye to foggy mornings.*