REDCON1 Fade Out Sleep Formula, Black Currant - Vegan, Sugar Free + Keto Friendly Night Time Sleep Aid - Vitamin C & Magnesium - Melatonin & GABA to Promote Rest (30 Servings)

I love the brand redcon1 and really trust their products and quality! Fade out helps me to sleep deep and recover my soreness from the gym. Will keep repurchasing.

this product is outstanding. It is a little tricky. This is not something you can take right after dinner and go to bed. You need to be able to take it on somewhat of an empty stomach. However, one word of caution I would give is when you take it and you’re laying in bed it can feel like your heart is racing a little bit when it actuality it is just your heart relaxing. Sleep like a baby!!!!

I wish I could give this a 4.5 star review. The only reason I did not give it a 5-star review is the difficult clean up. 30 minutes after taking this I'm ready to sleep so I sometimes end up leaving the cup on the nightstand and in the morning it turns to a black tarry consistency. Hope that's not what it does in my stomach. So... For the good side....First of all, I love that this contains Zinc and Magnesium ASPARTATE (ZMA). Sadly the research (1)does not support the claim that ZMA increases free testosterone or training adaptation but, subjectively, I feel that I sleep better when I take it and sleep = recovery, lower cortisol and increase HGH. So even before purchasing Fade Out I took ZMA along with Melatonin which has data but, still a bit controversial as to efficacy. Again, it works for me so I continue to take it.I like that it doesn't go overboard with the B vitamins which is a very common in the supplement industry. 1 gram of GABA for sleep is great, I personally take 3g preworkout and 1g at bedtime. GABA has been shown in smaller studies to reduce sleep latency and subjective stress levels. (2). An additional (potential) benefit of GABA is that is has been shown to increase HGH levels in higher doses (3-5g) which is important for recovery but the actual implication of muscle hypertrophy/recovery is not there yet. (3).Most folks are pretty familiar with L-Arginine. Most use it for its vasodilatory properties and its training effect on RPE. Another interesting aspect is that it also potentiates GABA which goes in tandem with the 1 g of Gaba in the mix.Not sure how I feel about the mucuna pruriens (L-Dopa 15%). Never used it before and haven't researched it much.I've heard phenylalanine used for depression/mood disorders. Not sure how well it works for sleep.L-Ornithine- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4055948/L-Theanine is great. I use it every day. Typically take it with coffee in the morning but, also have used it before bed as a sleep aid. It helps when sleep is disrupted from 24 hours shifts. (5)Long story short this is a good sleep aid. I try not to use it every night because I feel like sleep aids become a cruth to falling asleep. But 2-3 times a week I use this and have had wonderful results. I mainly use it on days I have a heavy workout and needing recovery. There is a good amount of research to back the ingredients with the verdict inconclusive on some others. At the end of the day I take research and my own subjective experience and this has checked both boxes. I highly recommend. One last thing, it is not the greatest tasting beverage but, I wouldn't say its bad by any means. I went with grape. Then again, I wan't buying it for a tasty beverage. I wanted a good nights sleep.(1) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2129161/(2) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6031986/(3) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18091016/(4)https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9219930/#:~:text=These%20findings%20suggest%20that%20L,arginine%20inhibits%20a%20GABA%20transporter.(5)https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6836118/

Overall think this works well. It really is not easy to tell how well this works if you are not doing all the other things you need to do in order to get quality sleep and recover. That being said I like the price better on this one then some others I have used and like the melatonin is a little higher than in some others I have had. Taste is ok but that's more preference than quality will probably try a different flavor next time round.

***update below original post***I have been using the grape fade out for over a year. I like the effects, and did like the flavor until this last container. I don't know what changed with the formula, but it has a strong chemical after taste which it never had before. My adult son uses it also and mentioned the flavor was pretty bad all of a sudden.I still sleep well, but the weird after taste is pretty pungent and very off putting. I hope they change it back.***edited 10/11/2020***I have no idea what changed again, but the last 2 containers have not worked at all. I don't sleep when I take it, and seems to almost have the opposite effect. The taste has also gotten worse, and I'm incredibly disappointed. This has been the only product that has worked for me, until now.

Longtime user of fade out, probably my 4th-5th tub. The original formula didn't taste amazing, but this straight up smells and tastes like stomach acid reflex. Old formula tastes worlds better than this. It also doest dissolve worth a f***, something I never had an issue with the old formula.Sleep quality is about the same, if not a little worse. I dont know if thats from not dissolving completely or the formula change. I tried using excess water and mixing the hell out of it and I still get a good amount of granules at the bottom of my bottle.The old formula needed 0 change it had amazing reviews and accomplished its job very well. Looks like this change was made to facilitate some cost cutting. For how expensive this stuff still is, Im going to switch back to ZMatrix from EVL. just my .02

I usually don't take a full scoop and I sleep through the night. I usually take it without mixing it in water, only a swig to wash it down...the taste is obviously not the greatest like most people say. I do notice a pins and needles or tingling sensation like I get from beta alanine. I'm not sure what that's caused by. Overall, I take it when I need to and it definitely does the job.

I like the product. I cycle it Sunday - Thursday. I found some instructions online for cycling the product. I'm unsure if it should be 4 weeks on - 2 weeks off but I think a recovery supplement is okay to cycle 5 days a week.