Our Magnesium Melatonin Direct & Long Release combines immediate-acting melatonin for faster falling asleep with a long-release melatonin that releases the active ingredient continuously over 8 hours. It also contains specially selected magnesium compounds and bioactive vitamins B6 and vitamin E as mixed tocopherols. This premium complex is rounded off with a pure extract from female hop blossoms via ethanol extraction.
The special combination of instant melatonin and a long-release formula has been specifically formulated to mimic the natural 8-hour sleep cycle. The immediately available melatonin is used to shorten the time it takes to fall asleep, followed by a continuous release of melatonin for the next 8 hours. The special release profile ensures that the correct dosage of melatonin is achieved without feeling drowsy the next morning. Our pure melatonin (99% purity) comes from European production. Our new long-release melatonin ingredient is specially produced just for us without silicon dioxide, which is often contaminated with nanoparticles; instead, a natural, silicon-rich bamboo extract is used.
Three ideally complementary magnesium compounds were selected as magnesium sources: magnesium oxide with a very high magnesium content of 57%, the amino acid chelate magnesium bisglycinate with extremely good bioavailability and magnesium taurate as an organic form of magnesium with 20% magnesium content.
Vitamin B6 is present as a variety of different active compounds. Pyridoxine, which is the form that most manufacturers use, is not actually biologically active until converted by the body. We have therefore chosen pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (PLP) as the active ingredient in our formulation, the directly active coenzyme form of vitamin B6, which the body can use directly in all important metabolic pathways. Our premium PLP is a pure, high-quality and vegan active ingredient with the highest possible bioavailability.
Most vitamin E supplements contain synthetic DL-alpha-tocopherols which contain clockwise rotating (D) and counterclockwise rotating (L) variants, to which the "DL" prefix refers. By contrast, only D-alpha-tocopherol is bioactive and occurs naturally in the body. Synthetic vitamin E has a lower bioavailability. Our high-dose vitamin E therefore contains exclusively D-alpha tocopherol as it appears in the body as well as all other 7 forms of vitamin E, with a focus on tocopherols. Our vitamin E is fully derived from 100% natural, plant-based raw materials: sunflowers and rice.
Our hops flower extract is obtained through a natural extraction process using only food-grade ethanol. No further solvents such as methanol or acetone are used, so the natural purity of the plant is fully preserved. We use only the flowers of the female hops plants, whose rich active ingredient content is concentrated fourfold. Next, the highly concentrated extract is gently spray dried, which ensures that the hops flowers' active ingredients are fully preserved. As a result, the capsules contain only 100% pure hops flower extract, with no additives or carriers.
The only other ingredient is premium gum arabic, cultivated without the use of plant protection products. In contrast to microcrystalline cellulose, a widely used synthetic filler often mixed with nanoparticles, gum arabic is a natural, fibre-rich food. Our fair trade gum arabic is climate neutral and is sustainably cultivated to conserve resources.
For the capsule shells we use custom-made HPMC capsules that, unlike most other HPMC and pullulan capsules on the market, are 100% free from controversial additives such as carrageenans and PEG. We then package this product in environmentally friendly amber glass.
