Form Nutrition ZZZZS Supplement

For a wee while, Jo’s been taking a sleep supplement at night called 5-HTP. (First recommended by husband.) It’s said to work at boosting levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin, help with fibromyalgia – but the action Jo was interested in was (as ever) improved sleep quality, since serotonin’s the precursor to melatonin, which plays such an important role in regulating sleep patterns.

And it has proved pretty darned effective. Jo doesn’t take it every night, but when her mind is racing and she really, really NEEDS a good night’s kip before something important. She’s found that ZZZZS (say it ‘zees’), definitely helps her to nod off faster, and wake up less frequently – resulting in bouncing-out-of-bed energy, in the morning.

As with all supplements, though, you get what you pay for and Jo would find that by the time she was half-way down the bottle, the fairly inexpensive solid ‘baked’ supplements had begun to flake and were difficult to swallow.

Now, we are packaging-lovers here, always seduced by a good-looking bottle. It won’t keep our interest if the product inside isn’t up to snuff, but it’ll catch our eye in the first place. So when Jo spotted this 5-HTP product (in Bamford Haybarn’s South Kensington spa/store), she bought a bottle – and is now on her second, a few months later. (Like we say, this isn’t an ever night supplement – for us, anyway.) Alongside the 5-HTP there are calming amino acids, magnesium and zinc and these are easy to swallow, down to the last capsule.

The ZZZZS name couldn’t be more appropriate. Night, night!

£19 – buy here

PS We very much like Form Nutrition’s ReForm end-of-life reuse programme: save five brown glass jars, return them and get a new bottle, free.

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