Questions, Answered Properly

Most people find falling asleep gets easier somewhere in the first week, and that the 3am wake-ups start getting shorter around weeks two to four.† Night one is usually uneventful, because nothing in here is designed to make night one eventful.

Magnesium is a restoration rather than a sedative. Your levels rebuild over weeks, which is why we would ask for a month before you form an opinion — and why you get a hundred nights before you have to.

That is the problem it was built around. Falling asleep and staying asleep are two different jobs, and the 3am version is rarely about not being tired enough.

Low magnesium nudges cortisol up, and high cortisol burns through magnesium, which is a loop that feeds itself. Restoring your levels helps quiet it.† What people tend to describe is the wake-ups getting shorter first, then rarer, then unremarkable.

No, and it is not trying to. There is no melatonin in these gummies, no valerian and no antihistamine. Magnesium restores something your body uses to wind itself down; it does not do the winding down on your behalf.†

If what you are after is the switched-off-at-the-mains feeling, this is honestly not the product.

There is a mechanical reason to think not. Grogginess comes from a sedative still sitting in your system at seven in the morning, and there is no sedative in here to still be in your system.†

Most people describe waking up clear rather than waking up rescued.

No. There is no melatonin in Steady at all, and leaving it out was deliberate.

Melatonin is a hormone that tells your body it is night-time — useful for shifting a body clock, which is a different problem from the one you have. It is also a fair part of why so many people gave up on sleep supplements. Magnesium is a mineral your body already runs on: more than three hundred processes depend on it,† and most diets do not keep up.

It is one of the first things people tend to mention, usually inside the first week or two.† Muscle relaxation is one of the jobs magnesium does, so cramping at night is a reasonably common signal that levels are running low.

We would not put it more strongly than that. Cramps have other causes, and if yours are severe or new, they are worth a word with your doctor rather than a gummy.

The $12 tub is almost certainly magnesium oxide, the cheapest form there is to make. Your body absorbs somewhere around four per cent of it. The rest stays in your gut and draws water in behind it, which is why magnesium has a quiet reputation as a laxative rather than a sleep aid.

Steady uses magnesium bisglycinate — magnesium bound to the amino acid glycine, which carries it through the gut wall at around ninety per cent absorption, without the digestive fallout.†

Bisglycinate costs several times more per kilogram and takes far more raw material to deliver the same dose. That is the honest reason for the price gap: not a markup, a different product wearing the same word on the front. If the cheap tub had worked, you would not be reading this page.

Two gummies, one to two hours before bed. Nothing to stir, measure or swallow whole.

If you want the full effect, yes. The result comes from your levels being consistently topped up, not from any one dose.† Missing the odd night undoes nothing. Missing half of them means you never find out whether it works.

This is the real reason it is a raspberry gummy and not a powder. The format that gets taken every night beats the format that sits at the back of the cupboard.

Two is the serving, and we would not go beyond it without asking your pharmacist or doctor first. More magnesium is not more sleep — past a point your body simply passes the excess, loosely.†

If two genuinely does not feel like enough after a month, get in touch before you start doubling up.

No. Magnesium is a mineral your body needs whether or not you supplement it. There is no dependency and nothing to taper off.

You may notice the difference in the other direction if your levels fall again, but that is a deficiency returning rather than a withdrawal.†

Ask your doctor or pharmacist. That answer has to come from someone who can see your full list, and we are not in a position to give it — genuinely, not as a legal hedge.

What we can tell you is that magnesium is known to interact with some prescription medicines, and that the fix is often as simple as spacing the doses a few hours apart. Take a photo of the ingredients panel in with you and your pharmacist will have an answer in about ninety seconds.

Please check with your doctor or midwife before you start. We do not make a recommendation either way.

Speak to your doctor before taking any magnesium supplement, this one included. Your kidneys are what clear excess magnesium, so it is a conversation to have with someone who knows your history.

It should not, and the reason is the same as everything else on this page. The stomach trouble people associate with magnesium comes almost entirely from oxide sitting unabsorbed in the gut. Bisglycinate is absorbed by a different route and is the form usually suggested to people who could not tolerate the cheap stuff.†

If your gut is sensitive, take one gummy for the first three or four nights before moving to two.

Per two-gummy serving: 400mg of magnesium bisglycinate. The gummy around it is a fruit pectin base, sweetened with stevia and flavoured with raspberry. Four ingredients, all of them printed on the bag.

What is not in it: magnesium oxide, melatonin, sugar, gelatin, stearates, artificial colours and proprietary blends.

Oxide is the cheap default and barely absorbs. Citrate absorbs reasonably well but is the form most likely to send you to the bathroom. Threonate is genuinely interesting and genuinely expensive, and the research behind it is younger and thinner than the marketing around it.

Bisglycinate has the best combination of absorption, tolerance and evidence — and glycine, the amino acid it is bound to, is itself studied for supporting deeper, more restful sleep.† It is not the cheapest option available to us. It is the one that works.

Because what decides whether magnesium works for you is whether you take it every night for a couple of months, and powders have a poor record on that.

Magnesium has a metallic edge in most formats. The pectin and the raspberry are there to keep that off your tongue, which is a small thing that turns out to matter a great deal.

All three. The base is fruit pectin rather than gelatin, so there is nothing animal-derived in it, and there is no wheat and no GMO ingredient.

Raspberry, and more like fruit than like a vitamin. There is no sugar in it — it is sweetened with stevia, on the view that a bedtime gummy should not become a bedtime dessert.

Yes. Every batch is tested by an independent laboratory for potency and for contaminants — which is to say, that what the label claims is in the bag, and that nothing else is.

Sixty gummies, which at two a night is thirty nights.

Two, if you want to give it a fair test. Thirty nights is roughly the point at which most people are still deciding — the 3am wake-ups tend to shorten across weeks two to four, and the settled stretch comes after that.† Sixty nights is enough to know.

To be plain about it: two bags is two bags at the same price each. It is not a discount and we are not going to dress it up as one. It is simply the length of a proper trial, and the guarantee covers you either way.

If it has not gone out yet, quite possibly. Tell us through the contact page as soon as you can and we will catch it if it can be caught. Once it is with the carrier it is out of our hands.

Either way you are not stuck with it — the 100-night guarantee applies from the day it arrives.

Tell us through the contact page with your order number, and a photo if it is damage. You will not have to argue the point, and the guarantee sits behind you regardless.

The full price you paid for the product, for any reason, for a hundred nights from the day it arrives. Not a store credit. Not a partial refund. Not the price minus a restocking fee.

It applies whether you bought one bag or two.

Because thirty nights is not long enough to answer the question, and we would rather not sell you a test that cannot honestly fail.

Falling asleep tends to get easier early. The 3am wake-ups take longer, usually weeks two to four. The stretch where sleeping through stops being a good night and starts being an ordinary one takes longer again.† A hundred nights covers all of it with room to spare, including the fortnight where you forget to keep score — which is usually the best sign of all.

Get in touch through the contact page with the name and email address you ordered under, before night one hundred. That is the process in full.

You do not have to justify yourself. If you feel like telling us what did not work, it genuinely helps us — but it is not a condition of anything.