Take the BATTLE out of bedtime with this ‘lemon lullaby’
It’s 3 a.m. and you’re still WIDE awake…
Even though you’ve been TRYING to fall asleep for HOURS.
It’d be one thing if you could sleep the day away tomorrow…
But you’ve got places to go and people to see!
If you manage to eke out a couple of hours of sleep tonight… it’ll be TOUGH to make it to tomorrow night without taking a nap…
Which just goes to show how your entire sleep cycle has been turned UPSIDE DOWN!
And even if you DO fall asleep at a decent hour… you can’t remember the last time you slept through the night.
Friend, it’s time to FINALLY relax…
Because I’ve got a way for you to get the sleep you so desperately want… and DESERVE.
In South America, lemon verbena (Aloysia citrodora) is both a culinary herb… and POWERFUL medicine.
It’s practically BURSTING with antioxidants… including the polyphenol compound called verbascoside.
That’s what contributes to lemon verbena’s benefits to blood pressure… and weight management…
And that’s what also helps this “kitchen secret” promote restful sleep!
Traditional medicine has used lemon verbena as a natural sedative throughout the ages…
And in a recent clinical trial out of Spain published in the journal Nutrients, participants who took a verbascoside-purified lemon verbena extract experienced IMPROVED sleep quality.
The study duration was 2 months… but some participants, especially women, saw significant improvements within just 1 month.
Specifically, study subjects suffered from FEWER sleep interruptions… and spent MORE time in restorative deep sleep… as measured by wearable sleep-tracking devices.
The study’s authors suggest that verbascoside may work by binding to GABA-A receptors in the brain… which could help SHUT DOWN brain activity when it’s time to go to bed.
That’s the same way that some Rx sleeping pills… known as “Z drugs”… work.
But while lemon verbena could make you feel drowsy or sleepy…
Consuming it ISN’T associated with risks like addition… overdose… falls… and more.
And this herbal alternative may bring even MORE to the table.
In the study, levels of cortisol (a.k.a. the “stress hormone”) were REDUCED by 15% in participants who took lemon verbena. And their Perceived Stress Scores were 11% lower than before taking lemon verbena, too!
Even better, those stress-relieving properties continued even AFTER the subjects stopped consuming the lemon verbena.
The product used in the study I just mentioned was a lemon verbena extract called Relaxplx by a Spanish company called Monteloeder.
The dosage was 400 mg.
But you can choose a lemon verbena extract supplement or lemon verbena tea from any quality maker you trust.
You may find it on the ingredient list under its scientific synonym, Lippia citriodora.
Don’t confuse lemon verbena with a similar but different plant, called vervain (Verbena officinalis)… which could also help improve sleep.


