Why This One Works When the Others Didn't
You have taken magnesium before. It sat in your stomach, did nothing for the 3am problem, and possibly sent you to the bathroom for its trouble. That was not bad luck, and it was not you. It was the form.
Magnesium Is Never Sold on Its Own
Elemental magnesium is a metal. It will not sit quietly on a shelf, so every supplement on earth binds it to a carrier first — oxide, citrate, malate, threonate, glycinate. The word on the front of the bag is the carrier, and the carrier decides almost everything about whether the magnesium reaches you or simply passes through.
That is the part the label does not explain. It is also why two products can print the same number on the front and produce completely different nights.
Oxide Is the Cheap One. Your Body Knows.
Magnesium oxide is the default in almost every supermarket and chemist tub, because it is by a wide margin the cheapest form to manufacture. Published comparisons put its absorption at roughly 4 per cent. The other 96 per cent does not vanish — it stays in your gut and draws water in behind it, which is why magnesium has a quiet second reputation as a laxative.†
So the cheap tub was not doing nothing. It was doing something. Just not the thing you bought it for.
Bisglycinate Goes In Through a Different Door
Magnesium bisglycinate is magnesium bound to glycine, an amino acid. Because the parcel looks like an amino acid, it is taken up through amino-acid transport rather than queueing for the mineral channels oxide has to fight its way through. In published comparisons absorption lands nearer 90 per cent, and it gets there without the digestive drama.†
Glycine is not only a courier, either. It is one of the more interesting amino acids in sleep research in its own right, studied for supporting deeper, more settled sleep.† You are getting two useful things and paying for one.
The Number Nobody Prints on the Label
Two pouches can carry the same figure on the front and deliver very different amounts of magnesium into your bloodstream. This is the gap, and it is the whole reason the last one did nothing.†
This Is Also Why It Isn't Twelve Dollars
Bisglycinate is only a fraction magnesium by weight — most of what you are handling is the glycine wrapped around it. To deliver a real dose you need several times more raw material than an oxide tub needs, and that raw material costs several times more per kilogram to begin with. Then it has to be built into a gummy that does not taste like a battery.
The cheap tub is not a bargain and Steady is not a markup. They are two different products wearing the same word on the front.
What It Does at 3am
Falling asleep and staying asleep are two separate jobs, and the 3am version is usually not a tiredness problem. Cortisol is meant to bottom out overnight and climb again before you wake. When magnesium is low, that curve gets jumpy and picks unhelpful hours to start climbing.†
Magnesium supports a healthy cortisol rhythm, supports your brain's production of GABA — the messenger that lets racing thoughts run down — and lets tense muscle and nerve settle, which is the same mechanism sitting behind the night cramps and the restless legs.† One mineral, several unglamorous jobs at once.
None of that is sedation. There is nothing in these gummies that pushes you under, which is exactly why there is nothing waiting for you at seven in the morning.
One Ingredient. Four Jobs It Is Quietly Doing.
There is no proprietary blend here and nothing added to pad the label out. Every one of these is the same magnesium bisglycinate, doing what magnesium does.
Nothing Happens on Night One
Magnesium is a restoration, not a sedative. Your levels rebuild over weeks rather than overnight, which is why turning up every night matters more than the size of the dose.† Here is the order it tends to arrive in. Individual results vary.
4 Clean Ingredients, Nothing You Don't Need
Magnesium Bisglycinate
400mg per two-gummy serving. Magnesium bound to glycine, the chelated form studied for high absorption without the digestive upset of oxide.
Glycine
The calming amino acid that carries the magnesium through your gut wall, and is itself studied for supporting deeper, more restful sleep.
Pectin Base
Fruit-derived pectin instead of gelatine, so every gummy is fully vegan with a soft, clean chew. No animal products, no gluten, no GMOs.
Stevia & Raspberry
Naturally sweetened with zero sugar, so a bedtime gummy does not become a bedtime dessert. Real raspberry flavour you will look forward to.
How to Take It
Two gummies, one to two hours before bed. That is the whole instruction. The rest of this is just detail.
- Give it an hour or two of runway. Not with dinner, not as the lamp goes off. It wants time to be somewhere useful by the time you are horizontal.
- Two gummies is the full serving. No stirring, no measuring, no tablet the size of a AA battery. Sixty gummies in a pouch is thirty nights.
- Start with one if magnesium has been unkind to you before. One gummy for the first three or four nights, then move to two. Most people do not need to, and it costs nothing to.
- Every night, not most nights. This is a restoration rather than a sedative, so the nights you skip are the nights that do not count.†
Who This Is Not For
We would rather lose the sale than have this go badly, so here is the honest list.
- If your kidney function is reduced. Your kidneys are what clear excess magnesium. Speak to your doctor before taking any magnesium supplement, not only this one.
- If you take prescription medication. Magnesium is known to interact with some medicines. Your doctor or pharmacist can tell you where you stand — take a photo of the ingredients panel in with you.
- If you are pregnant or breastfeeding. Ask your doctor, midwife or pharmacist first. We do not make a recommendation either way.
- If you are under eighteen. This is formulated for adults.
- If you want to be knocked out tonight. This is not that product and it will disappoint you. There is nothing sedating in it, by design.
- If you are not going to take it for a month. A fortnight is not a fair test, and you will have spent the money to confirm a suspicion you already had.
Nothing on this page is medical advice. If any of the above applies to you, the person to ask is your own doctor or pharmacist.
Take 100 Nights. We'll Wait.
You have a drawer full of reasons not to believe us. Fair. So take Steady every night and let your sleep make the case. If night 100 arrives and you are not sleeping better, email us and we will refund every penny. No hoops, no hassle.
Start Your 100 Nights
That Is the Whole Argument.
Two raspberry gummies, one to two hours before bed. A hundred nights to decide whether it worked. If it did not, we refund every penny.
What the Symbols Mean
† These statements have not been evaluated by the TGA or the FDA. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
* Individual experiences. Results vary from person to person.
Absorption figures on this page refer to published comparisons of magnesium bisglycinate and magnesium oxide as compounds. They describe the two forms, not this product.
Information on the Steady site is provided for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for medical advice from your physician. These statements have not been evaluated by the TGA or the FDA. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.