NOW Foods Supplements, Glycine Pure Powder, Promotes Restful Sleep*, Neurotransmitter Support*, 1-Pound

NOW Supplements Glycine Pure Powder will give you safe, restful sleep. It also has a major calming effect. It, together with a powerful supplement stack I am taking, as changed the quality of my life.I am now experiencing longer, deeper sleep. Insomnia vastly improved. Anxiety is not just diminished, but gone. I no longer suffer from depression, OCD is vastly improved, focus is enhanced, brain fog cleared. I am experiencing weight loss, lost 2 1/2 inches off my waist, and credit all these effects to the glycine, in addition to the supplement stack I am now on. Pre-diabetes and insulin resistance is gone. BP normal. Healthy glucose/AC1/HDL/LDL levels on my blood test. No dietary/exercise changes, but I look and feel 20 years younger. I have energy! My doctor is amazed. 6 weeks is all it took for me.This Glycine powder is pure, has no undesirable taste, and is super easy to talk. I stir it in my coffee with hazelnut non fat, non dairy creamer, and I find it does not change the taste. I like the fact that it is pure glycine, not mixed with additives I find in capsule form. And as it is powder, you can easily take the exact amount you want, so you control your own dosage.I have had a prolonged, challenging rough patch in my life to deal with. Add to that, I'm a chronic insomniac and because of severe PTSD, I suffer from being in a constant state of hyper alertness, with tensed muscles and catch myself with clenched hands and tense shoulder/neck. Trying to lay down and sleep like that is impossible. Trying to just function normally throughout my day was impossible. Trying to function on two or three hours of sleep is impossible. In addition, all this causes high levels of cortisol and adrenaline; I watched my waist expanding. My cholesterol went sky high, my blood pressure soared, and I was diagnosed pre-diabetic.My GP bugged me for over a year to try an Rx, and when I finally caved out of desperation, the prescription medications made my symptoms worse as well as I experienced a few new ones, including frightening hand tremors. Tossed those medications in the trash the first week. I started doing research, tried a few natural supplement combinations that did not worked, and finally found the combination that does. Glycine is an important and integral part of the natural, clinically proven combo that has changed my life.I usually add this Glycine Powder to my midmorning coffee, then again add a bit to a beverage early evening. I immediately feel the calm and experience true relaxation.

This is exactly as advertised: pure pharmaceutical grade glycine. It looks like sugar and it is very subtly sweet, but mostly it’s tasteless when added to food or drink. If you put ¼ teaspoon in a glass of water, you might notice that the water tastes ever so subtly sweeter, but it still tastes completely like water. If you didn’t know it was there, you’d probably never notice it. Frankly, it makes the water taste “fresher.”The packaging advises taking ¼ teaspoon one to three times a day. Each ¼ teaspoon contains 1 g (1000 mg) of glycine. There are 454 servings of glycine in every one-pound container. Thus if you were to take three, ¼ teaspoons/day, this bottle would last 151 days. This 3g/day dosage is consistent with what I’ve learned through internet research and it is what I’ve been doing.I started taking glycine because I learned that it might be strongly associated with prolonging life. It is already known to help with sleep, wound healing, and joint pain. Science has only recently come around to recognizing that glycine should be considered a semi-essential amino acid. Humans can manufacture glycine in their livers from other amino acids, but the modern diet often means that humans are slightly glycine deficient. Supplementation with approximately 3 g/day in modern man may be beneficial.I’ve noticed no amazing change in my health since I started taking glycine; however, it is very calming and helps with sleep. I’ve notice that wounds heal quickly and my low-grade knee pain is less notable. But frankly, even if I noticed nothing, I’d still continue to take this product because I’m betting that researchers will continue to discover that it plays a vital role in anti-aging.We’re not allowed to include Internet links in reviews. But if you’d like to educate yourself about some of the articles I’ve read that have convinced me to start supplementing with glycine, Google (with quotes): 1) “health benefits of glycine” and 2) “Scientists reverse aging in human cell lines”.

It’s like drugs for your dreams! Very vivid dreams, which are always crazy. Worked on the 2nd night I took it, woke up a little drowsy but finally got a decent night of sleep. Tastes like sugar so great to add to mixed drinks or smoothie. I don’t always get a full night spirit with it but always get vivid dreams. I have mixed feelings about it but it is as advertised.

So let me say that this stuff was great, at least the first bottle I got from amazon. It was sweet and allowed me to wake, even with less sleep than usual and be able to think very clearly. Normally I'm groggy and grumpy when I wake up, not with this stuff. So the 2nd bottle I got was definitely fake. Tasted sour, actually mixed in the water better (original 3g was having some trouble dissolving 16oz of water sometimes), and had a plastic fake chemical smell to my water. I no longer got the beneficial sleep effects, and it also made me queasy after taking it. So be careful, I'm going to try again and hopefully get the real thing. Otherwise I'll get it somewhere other than amazon.