Could You Please Share the Supplements That One Should Take to Assist With Better Sleep?

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Could you please share the supplements that one should take to assist with better sleep? This is JJ Virgin, four time New.

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Norwin 18.09 asks, could you please repeat all of the supplements that one should take to assist with better sleep? Regards. All right, I'm going to be right back with everything that I do to get a great night's sleep. Sleep. Stay with me.

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All right, so we are talking sleep and I'm going to share what I do to get a great night's sleep. And so first of all, what you measure and monitor, you can improve. So I use an OURA ring. I am a big advocate of finding a sleep tracker that you can use to track your sleep. So I use an OURA ring every night, and that is what I do. And it really helps me kind of look back when I get a crappy night's sleep. Sleep, go. What did I do? What did I do that day that contributed to that? So sadly enough, I've discovered that I can only. I mean, not sadly enough, I can only drink dry farm wine because any other type hurts me and I don't get a good night's sleep. So thank you, Todd and David, for that. At least we have. We have our great dry farms wine. So look at it and see. I know that if I eat, I try to stop eating. I don't try. I stop eating three to four hours before bed. If I eat late, I don't sleep well. Um, so look at the things by using your OURA ring and go, gosh, what works for me, what doesn't. Now here's what I do. And I have this routine. Pretty much wherever I am, the only challenge will be if I'm somewhere where they don't have a bathtub. That really messes me up because every night I take a hot bath with Epsom salts added and I use a little lavender oil in it. It's amazing. I also just found a little lavender spray for the pillow, but I use a little lavender essential oil and I get into a hot bath with Epsom salts. Now, other thing we start to do, my husband's better at this because he's super light sensitive, is we turn all the lights down. So we dim the lights and we take the. This is what I've won on, is we take the air down to 68. I'd have it down to 65, but 68 is kind of the lowest, the highest low you want to make sure you have. So you're taking a hot bath, you're down dimming the lights. You're cooling it down. Advanced points. If you want to put red lights in your bedroom lamps, which, by the way, make you look amazing. Then we wear our blue blocker glasses. Then I take magnesium. So I have my new Reignite wellness product. It's super cute. We did a. Again, I did a facelift on my products, so it's called magnesium mineral magic. One of the big things with magnesium is you want to make sure it's. It's a very easy to absorb because these aren't easy to absorb. So mine is bisglycinate, which is a very good calming source of magnesium. So I have 300 milligrams per two caps. I will tell you that I take four every night. That's what I feel best at. Kind of the way you can tell with magnesium is if you take too much, you will have loose stools. You will have what people call disaster pants. So what I tell people to do is like, start with two. 300mg is a really reasonable dose. If you feel like, feel great, you don't notice anything at all. You can push it up to three, but if you get. The minute you get any kind of loose stools, back it down. The next thing that I take is my sleep candy. And I created this product years ago because I found something similar but had sugar in it and I wanted something I could chew before bed that would help me sleep. So this one has inositol theanine. 5 HTP. Melatonin of 5 HTP helps make melatonin. Melatonin, of course, when we're in a pitch black room, which is super important, our body makes melatonin. Theanine's a calming amino acid that makes Gaba, which is our biggest calming neurotransmitter. Inositol is a calming B vitamin. And B6 works in the pathways to help make these neurotransmitters. So I find that I do great with three a night. Some people only need one, so see how you do. Everything's put in there to help you fall and stay asleep. Pitch black room, quiet room. Really important. Pitch black and quiet. So we have blackout curtains in our house if you're not in that situation. When I travel, I bring an eye mask and I really love the Tempur Pedic eye mask. It's the most comfortable one that I found. All right, now, if you've got questions, you can just jump on over to Instagram and JJ Virgin and DM Me and I will make sure we get that question answered either by me or one of my health expert buddies. And if you haven't subscribed yet, make sure you subscribe to JJ.com so you do not miss a daily dose of Ask the Health Expert.

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