Asphalia Sleep formerly called Greensward (30 capsules)
For Natural Sleep consists of the exact same ingredients as Greensward - we''''ve just improved the packaging! This is still vegan and vegetarian friendly, gluten free and free from preservatives and colourants
Asphalia is produced in a Welsh valley from entirely natural plant materials chosen for their high antioxidant profile. It helps maintain a healthy lifestyle as part of a normal diet, fights off the free radicals which otherwise cause premature aging and significantly improves the state of natural sleep. The original high anti-oxidant formula, developed by Coghill Research Laboratories as a completely natural radioprotective against electromagnetic fields and radiations (EMFs) such as those from cellphones, powerlines and masts, and five times as powerful as Vitamin C.
Asphalia and Jet Lag
Description
The term “jet lag” is used to describe symptoms that result from temporary desynchronization of circadian rhythm between a traveler’s internal clock and the external environment. When the traveler crosses several time zones rapidly, physiologic rhythms that are innately synchronized with the day-night cycles must be reset to match the new time zone. Although incompletely understood, these rhythms include diurnal variation in body temperature and cortisol secretion. The major known mediator of the internal clock is melatonin, which is secreted by the pineal gland in response to darkness and induces sleepiness. Daylight suppresses melatonin secretion; meals and other factors also influence its secretion.
Occurrence
Eastward travel is associated with difficulty in falling asleep at the new bed-time and difficulty arising in the morning, while westward travel is associated with early evening sleepiness and predawn awakening. Even after returning home, a traveler may experience prolonged disordered sleep patterns. Resumption of normal sleep may require 2 days after an eastward voyage and 5 days after re-turning from the west.
Risk for travelers
Individual responses to crossing time zones and ability to adapt to the new time zone vary. Increasing age, crossing more time zones, or traveling eastward generally increase the time required for adaptation. Situations requiring critical decision-making, such as important meetings, should be avoided for the first day after arrival, if possible.
Clinical Presentation
Symptoms of jet lag are temporary and include excessive daytime sleepiness, nighttime insomnia, decreased performance, headache, general malaise, appetite loss, and dysregulation of gastrointestinal and urinary schedules.
Prevention
Jet lag may be minimized by avoiding large meals or dehydration, limiting caffeine and alcohol consumption during the flight, optimizing exposure to available sunlight following arrival from either direction of travel, breaking up the journey with a stop-over, and careful use of Asphalia plant-derived melatonin prior to desired sleep time.
Mechanism of interaction
Melatonin controls the body’s circadian rhythm for the purpose of cell repair, which is mediated via cell division (mitosis). Each night some half billion organic cells in the adult are instructed to divide by electrical signals from the brain’s corpus callosum, but only at times of optimum signal-to-noise ratio, i.e. at night, when electromagnetic energy from the sun is absent, and electrical signals to muscles have quiesced during sleep. Since mitosis requires much energy in the form of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), and ATP synthesis inevitably leads to escape of unpaired electrons (free radicals) during the final acceptance of electrons by molecular oxygen (O2) during oxidative phosphorylation, melatonin is on hand as an additional powerful antioxidant to scavenge the stray free radicals. Melatonin exercises overarching control of mitochondrial ATP synthesis by its control of nitric oxide. Normally NO governs the role of molecular oxygen in acting as final electron acceptor in the electron transport chain.
Thus melatonin acts not only as a controller of the circadian rhythm but as a powerful free radical scavenger during nocturnal ATP synthesis. Melatonin is light-activated by neural pathways from the suprachiasmatic nuclei to the pineal gland, and shuts down in the presence of light (perceived as a competing signal to EEG signals) but the efficiency of these pathways is gradually compromised as the pineal becomes calcified with age. Exposure to artificial sources of electromagnetic energy at frequencies other than visible light also inhibits the synthesis of melatonin. Administration of external melatonin at physiological doses restores the role of the indoleamine during electromagnetic challenge, which is also induced by changes of the geomagnetic field over short time periods (Clerk Maxwell’s fourth equation: curl e = -dB/dt).
Greensward: a blend of wheat, barley, and other gramineous species leaves rich in natural ingredients to maintain good health.
GREENSWARD: Festuca arundinacea (a natural meadowgrass), Red clover and White clover.
Red Clover and White Clover - anti-cancer properties, psoriasis, as an anti-inflammatory, gout and arthritis, bronchitis, whooping cough, constant cough, sinus and post nasal drip, breast cancer
Asphalia is not chemically polluted!
Much of the so called “fresh” fruit and vegetables on sale today is chemically treated with often hazardous chemicals. A 2003 study by the UK Govt’s Dept of Health revealed that 12% of pears contained carbendazim, a possible carcinogen, 2% of potatoes contain aldicarb, a nerve poison, over 20% of apples contain chloropyrifos, a hormone disrupting chemical, and many more examples of chemical pollution were found in so called “fresh” fruit and vegetables.
Other important Scientific Information
Studies have now shown that regular intake of dietary supplements can maintain health and provide what even many fresh foods cannot. Asphalia is developed to optimise these needs as part of a normal calorie-controlled diet, and thereby help fortify you against life’s environmental challenges. For example some fresh fruit and vegetables are rich in natural antioxidants which combat aging and ill health by quenching the damaging effects on DNA and energy synthesis (ATP) of free radicals. Our ingredients have been selected to include the most powerful antioxidants for this reason. But these do not work in isolation, and if used so could actually be hazardous to health: this is why Vitamin C is limited to a 500mg dose. The body needs a combination of ingredients for optimal protection such as found in Asphalia. What’s more these seem to be more effective if naturally derived from plants than if synthesised chemically.
Instructions and Contra-indications
Which ever variety you have, take just one capsule into the mouth, and swallow with a small amount of water just before bedtime. For faster assimilation break open the capsule gently and add to a teaspoon or two of water, then take the liquid under the tongue for 30 seconds before swallowing. Children under 12 should take only ½ capsule. Not for infants under 12 months. Do not consume if about to drive or operate machinery. Pregnant women should consult their physician before taking.
