An apple a day keeps the doctor away, but a good night’s sleep is the cure to basically everything if you ask me. Like, no sleep can’t replace literal medicine, but the older you get, the more you notice that nothing you do goes well (from exercise to recovering from a cold) if you didn’t get a good night’s sleep beforehand. Being unconscious is your body’s time to regroup down to a cellular level, and frankly, we don’t get enough of it. And, just like sex, even if we are getting some, it’s usually not the quality we really deserve.
Enter the wellness industry with its latest sleep hack: hot chocolate?? If someone invented The Polar Express to catch some Z’s, I wanna know about it, like now. And not just because I’ll take any excuse to incorporate more chocolate into my precious diet. What is sleepy hot chocolate, and does it actually work? I’m putting on my investigator nightcap to get to the bottom of this overnight mystery.
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What is TikTok’s sleepy hot chocolate?
Sleepy hot chocolate is a special chocolatey drink mix created to help promote deep sleep. Basically, it’s sleepytime tea, but with a lil razzle dazzle sprinkled. Brands like Beam (which charges a WHOPPING $85 per bag) incorporate “natural sleep ingredients” like reishi, magnesium, l-theanine, melatonin, and apigenin to help you get to sleep quicker and stay asleep longer.
Other brands like Mindful Nutrition and The Functional Chocolate Company offer similar sleepy hot chocolate drink mixes (with GABA) and candy bars (with a proprietary herbal and tryptophan-forward blend) to help you to doze dreamily.
Does sleepy hot chocolate actually work?
@clararpeirceso excited to get in bed I can’t even think of a caption kk goodnight♬ original sound – Clara Peirce
According to many users on TikTok, sleepytime hot chocolate has led to some iconic sleep. One creator described the experience as “sprawled out, drooling, most restorative sleep” ever, even though she really “did not want to like” the product because of the hefty price tag.
Cocoa naturally has caffeine, but most of these sleep-oriented drinks are processed so that the cocoa powder has lower levels of caffeine that actually can help promote sleep. That being said, everybody is different, so if this sweet treat keeps you up at night, move on to the next sleep hack and never look back!
If you’re looking for cheaper alternatives to test it out, Amazon reviewers call Mindful Nutrition‘s version “honestly kind of life-changing.” With a surprisingly good taste, it’s something they love the ritual of preparing before bed. Take it from my boss-ass acupuncturist: the key to good sleep is a slow, mindful routine that your body can get used to.
Mindful Evening Sugar-Free Cocoa Mix Natural Sleep Aid
Functional Chocolate Sleep Sweet Slumber Blueberry Lavender Candy
