5mg Melatonin - Melatonin is of course the lead ingredient and is the hormone that the body produces to regulate it's natural sleep cycle. The body produces melatonin when it gets dark to let your brain known it's time to start falling asleep. The 5mg dose in Qunol sleep support is a mid strength dose. it's generally recommended to test a lower dose first as it can lead to daytime drowsiness in some people who are particularly sensitive to it.
100mg GABA - GABA is an amino acid that functions to slow down transmission in the brain and is used as a sleep aid and to reduce anxiety. 100mg is a decent dose and should be effective as a sleep aid.
100mg L Theanine - L theanine is well tested for reducing broken sleep. It's an amino acid found in green tea, and once again it's a solid inclusion for helping you stay asleep. 100mg is on the lower side of it's effective range and we'd have preferred to have seen 200mg, although it's an ok inclusion in qunol sleep aids.
Proprietary Blend 400mg
Typically speaking proprietary blends are listed in order of largest ingredient to smallest, this would also give the most favorable reading to Qunol sleep support capsules, so that is the model we will be using. It's a legal requirement in some countries.
Valerian root - Valerian root is a decent sleep aid ingredient if dosed over 200mg, which in this blend we do expect that it should be. Typically speaking it kicks in pretty quickly and should be taken about 30 mins to one hour before sleep. This is a good ingredient for Qunol Sleep Support.
Ashwagandha - Ashwagandha is a good ingredient, the problem here is the dosage, it needs to be higher than what can possibly be contained within the qunol sleep support formula. It's known to reduce cortisol build up, lowering your bodies stress response improving a disturbed sleep wake cycle.
Chamomile extract - This could be correctly dosed although it's one of the less effective sleep aid ingredients. Chamomile extract has been shown to have some benefit in a couple of studies, but is generally more effective when consumed as a tea. As an extract it needs to be in at least 200mg, and whilst it could be correctly dosed it would mean other ingredients were not.
Lemon balm extract - Lemon balm's effective range is closer to 500mg, meaning that there simply isn't enough space in Qunol's formula for the ingredient.
Lavender - This is functionally not effective, and whilst a common ingredient in a lot of sleep aids, it doesn't really need to be in here. There aren't any human studies to prove it's effective and the rodent studies used 300mg per pound meaning humans would need grams if it were to be effective to help you fall asleep and stay asleep.