Day 12 Sleep Tip

What tools have you been using so far during the challenge? Anything that you have noticed since using these tools consistently?

Are you using any of these tools?

Morning: Lifelong Vitality & PB Restore
Afternoon or Evening: Lifelong Vitality
20-30 Minutes Before Bed:
Serenity Oil in Diffuser, Take Serenity Soft Gels
Apply Serenity Stick Before Getting in Bed

‌When Dr. Nicole Stevens, PhD was asked about why are there 3 parts to the Serenity System and why use them together. Here is what she had to say:

Sleep and our body systems, are very complex. And these pathways that are going on in our bodies, in each of our cells–there's a lot of signals that are going back and forth every second of every day. So, each of these products approaches those signals and those pathways a little bit differently. So, it's a way to align those signals in the body. I think of it that way.

When the body is hearing multiple signals from multiple places, it's like, "Oh, okay, it really is time to calm down and go to sleep." You know, it's getting the aromatic signals from the oil and it's getting the topical signals that are coming from the stick, as well as aromatic as we smell it rising off of our skin. And then it's getting signals also from the softgel in our digestive system. And all of these are really combining to help the body in multiple ways, in several different ways.

And we saw this as we looked at the clinical research. As we were going through the trial, we were testing multiple things from people too. We were asking them, "How did you feel?" And we were checking their blood, and we were looking at their epigenetics. And each of these ways were telling us that the effects we were seeing were happening on lots of different levels.

So, that's where I think the real power of the doTERRA Serenity Sleep System comes in, is we are helping and supporting multiple levels of healthy sleep and relaxation. And that makes sense coming from a lot of different places in our body, and leading, ultimately, to the same goal of having really high-quality sleep.
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And speaking of that study, here are some highlights of that study and the benefits they saw.

From Dr. Stevens: “we set up the trial to look at first—well, first we wanted to see what people were doing without anything at all. We wanted to check their sleep just as their sleep normally would be. We had them wear fitness tracking devices on their wrist, and we had them just go about their day. And we took a look at what their sleep looked like and what their activity levels looked like, and we had them tell us how they felt.

Then we introduced the oil and we had them diffuse just the oil for a week. And we saw, "Okay, are there any changes that happened just with the oil?" Then for another week we had them do the oil and the stick together and we said, okay, are there any changes if we just use that part of the doTERRA Serenity Sleep System?

And then finally, for a month, we had them do the whole doTERRA Serenity Sleep System. And each week we were still asking them, "How do you feel?" We were measuring their sleep and their activity with the fitness tracker, and we were doing blood tests to see what's happening inside their body. Are there positive changes? Are there things that we would maybe not want to see? We always check for safety markers when we're doing studies like this. So, what we found was very exciting to us.

We saw that, compared to before people started doing anything, you know, there's a lot of people just had sleep that was all over the map. Like ,really crazy, not high quality, not good sleep scores. And unfortunately this is fairly common. A lot of other research has shown us that, as a country and really in a lot of ways, as a global community, sleep is not good. Most of us don't get the kind of sleep that we need to really sustain a healthy life.

So, once we started introducing the doTERRA Serenity products, it was really exciting to see the changes that started happening when we were looking at the fitness tracker that was looking at sleep amount and sleep quality. We saw the amount of sleep increase a little bit, but really it was the quality of sleep that increased more. We saw changes in the amount of deep sleep and REM sleep, and the kinds of sleep that are very supportive of health, very healing to the body.

And, even more exciting to us is what we were seeing happening on the cellular level. The blood tests were showing us that health markers were increasing. And we didn't see any changes in the safety markers, which was good too. We want to make sure this is a safe system for people to use.

And I think most exciting to us was looking at epigenetics. And this is clear down at the level of DNA, right? People's DNA. It is what it is. It is what they came with, what they were born with. But then epigenetics is where we actually can alter the genes that are being expressed. We turn them up or we turn them down like a dimmer switch. And this is really what's going to affect us day to day. It's going to affect our health, our longevity.

And what we saw with people using the doTERRA Serenity Kit was that these genes that were being turned up were supportive of healthy sleep, of healthy immune system, of healthy body processes. And the genes that were being turned down were the ones that we would see if you were under high stress. So, we were seeing the body reset, and we were seeing all these wonderful positive changes from the people using the doTERRA Serenity Sleep Kit.

And honestly, it was exciting for us because we knew the product worked and we could see it. And it was exciting for us, too, as scientists because this is work that's never been done before. We were we were seeing things that was very new and exciting and novel in the scientific community. So, in a lot of ways, this is just a very groundbreaking study for doTERRA.”

Here is a little data for you. The study noted:

A significant decrease in blood age markers in regular sleepers—by 1.84 years. This wasn’t seen in irregular sleepers.
A significant decrease in brain age markers in regular sleepers—by 7.05. This was also seen in irregular sleepers by 5.74 years.
A significant decrease in inflammatory markers in regular sleepers—by 3 years. This was also seen in irregular sleepers by 2.37 years.
A significant decrease in immune age markers in regular sleepers by 3.86 years. This was not seen in irregular sleepers.
A significant decrease in metabolic age markers in regular sleepers by 4.45 years. This was also seen in irregular sleepers by 3.48 years.

For those that opted in to share your data from this challenge, you now are apart of the next study!

We would invite you to take a moment to dive into the tool-box kits for the tools we are utilizing during this challenge. Let us know what some of your takeaways are.

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I use serenity soft gels d dry night, recently added serenity to my diffuser. Use the stick on my feet and fire arms. Sleeping really well!

I use Pb restore in the mornings, take soft gel, and use stick serenity. sometimes will use the oil. the light on my diffuser keeps me up… I do have a night routine I try to stick with, but with kids and husband, it doesn't always happen, and bedtime is never when I set it for. However, school will be starting up soon so bedtime is 9:30 I try to be in bed by 10 and asleep by 10:30. Sooner when I don't feel good or fighting a migraine.

I take all my LLV & PB Restore in the morning (Otherwise I get heartburn). I turn on my diffuser 20-30 minutes before bed and do 3 drops Serenity, 2 OnGuard and Breathe oils. I DON’T take the Serenity Soft Gels (as it gave me really bad heartburn). And apply the stick on my chest and feet before I get into bed.
IS THERE ANOTHER WAY TO USE THE SERENITY SOFT GELS????

I am following the full sleep protocol. I take a few additional suppliments: Turmeric, DDR Prime Copaiba and Adaptiv. I forgot to take the Serenity softgels and Adaptiv cap. Before bed and I woke up 4 times before I remembered. They make a huge different for me. I started taking my second Serenity softgel after I wake up to go to the bathroom. I heard that in one of the TEDMED videos. It works well.

been following the routine but I add a few other supplements and oils throughout the day. so fat to bed befor midnight now

I’ve been using the serenity soft gels and the stick every night. One night I had the bright idea to not take the soft gels. I ended up taking it in the middle of the night. It makes a difference in the sleep I am getting.

I use LLV and PB restore daily. I am trying to get more consistent at using the other tools. I feel like I often use one but not all three at the same time. It has helped to fall asleep after being up in the night feeding a newborn.

I have felt better since using the serenity system

I have seen a dramatic improvement in my sleep, and the LLV are crucial, I missed taking them twice and I noticed it.

@jennifer great question. I love to use the Serenity Softgels in a hot bath before bed. I simply poke a little hole in the softgel, add it to some epsom salts and add to my hot bath. So relaxing!! If you want to take them internally, you can try taking them with a little food like one of the foods we talked about in module 3 that support food. You can also take a Terrazyme with it to help with the onset of the heartburn. Let us know what you try and how it works for you.

I haven't tried the complete system. I like the idea that combining the multiple products is signaling messages from different parts of the body and letting the body know that it's really time to start preparing for sleep.