Suntheanine May Support Sleep

Suntheanine May Support Sleep

MINNEAPOLISTaking a pure L-theanine supplement (as Suntheanine fromTaiyo International Inc., distributed by Fairfield, Conn.- based NutriScienceInnovations LLC) may help improve sleep, according to the company. The resultsof the study will be presented at the 17th European Sleep Research SocietyCongress this October in Prague.

After a three-day acclimation period, 22 young men (with an average age of27) were supplemented with 200 mg/d of Suntheanine or placebo one hour beforebedtime for six consecutive days; subjects were then crossed over andreceived the opposite treatment. Sleep performance was assessed by interviewsupon waking, questionnaires and a wrist actigraph, which records bodily movementduring sleep. During administration of Suntheanine, all subjects reported astatistically significant absence of feeling exhausted and a reduced needfor sleep compared to when receiving placebo, according to Taiyo International.Sleep efficiencyan index of actual sleep time enjoyed between the time offalling asleep and final morning awakeningalso improved in several subjects;these same subjects also reported a superior mental state prior to fallingasleep and a decreased occurrence of nightmares during the Suntheanine phase,but not the placebo phase. The total time from falling asleep to awakening wasunchanged during both phases of the study.

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