CLAV Night: Active metabolism in your sleep

Have you ever woken up drenched in sweat without having had a nightmare? Lots of people believe that their body simply lies in bed motionless at night and relaxes.

In fact, the opposite is the case. At night, our brain is in full swing, working to process and sort the events of the day. The things we learnt are moved from the short-term to the long-term memory. At the same time, the immune system is actively combating pathogens, which are trying to spread through our body. All this requires a lot of energy. At night, depending on how we sleep, we toss around between 30 and 80 times and wake up briefly up to 30 times over and over again.

Assuming eight hours of sleep, an adult human burns an average of between 400 and 500 calories per night, depending on sex, age and specific caloric needs.

Sleep well with L-tryptophan

L-tryptophan is an amino acid the body cannot produce itself but is required in the production of various hormones. These include the "happiness hormone" serotonin and the sleep hormone melatonin. Melatonin is responsible for the biological day-night rhythm and makes us feel tired. If the concentration of L-tryptophan in the body rises in the evenings, melatonin is produced in higher quantities than serotonin.

The daily dose of our CLAV NIGHT contains 240 mg of L-tryptophan in order to support the production of melatonin.

What does L-carnitine have to do with sleep?

"Eat breakfast like an emperor, lunch like a king and dinner like a beggar." Plenty of people have probably heard this saying. Ultimately, the key message of this piece of wisdom is not to go to bed with a full stomach. When we sleep, our digestion shuts down, and the body therefore has to use additional energy in order to metabolise this late meal.

Instead, various nutritionists recommend only eating a small amount or a light meal in the evening in order not to burden the body in its regenerative phase. Additionally, a light diet in the evening means that the body must obtain the energy it requires from cells that are already stored; ideally from fat cells, as they offer the largest amount of energy.

CLAV NIGHT contains 146 mg of carnitine tartrate. Carnitine tartrate is a bioavailable form of L-carnitine. Bioavailable means that the body can metabolise carnitine tartrate more effectively than the basic form, L-carnitine. Essentially, L-carnitine is an amino acid compound that is both produced in the body and can also be absorbed through the diet. L-carnitine is involved in the muscles' production of energy from fatty acids and is the means of transport that moves these lipid acids to the mitochondria of the muscles. In order to support this energy production, CLAV NIGHT contains 146 mg of bioavailable carnitine tartrate.