A note for the 3am club
Awake at 3am, doing the maths?
Your body is done. Your head isn’t. Here are five things worth knowing before the next one.
What one scoop of Settl is built for:
- Get to sleep faster
- Wake less at 3am
- Sleep deeper
- Wake up refreshed
3:04am. You know the ceiling by heart.
The room is dark, the house is quiet, and you’re wide awake for no reason you can name. Your body is heavy. Your head has decided this is the perfect time to replay a conversation from Tuesday.
So you do the maths. If I fall asleep right now, that’s five hours. Four and a half, if I count the wind-down. You check the phone, which is the worst move, and now it’s 3:21 and you’re further from sleep than when you started.
If you used to be a great sleeper, this is the part that stings. You didn’t used to lie here. You’ve probably tried the obvious things already: less screen time, a magnesium tablet that may or may not be the right kind, a melatonin gummy. Here is what we think is going on.
Why one scoop fits the 3am wake-up.
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The head settles before the spiral starts.
Tired but wired. Your body is done by nine and your head is still going at eleven: tomorrow’s list, the email you didn’t send. That same head is the first thing to switch back on when you surface at 3am.
What helps
Give the evening somewhere to land before you lie down. Every scoop of Settl has 200mg of L-theanine, the amino acid found in tea leaves, and 3,000mg of glycine.
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No melatonin, so no morning fog.
Ever taken a melatonin gummy, dropped off fine, been awake at 3am anyway, and then been foggy until lunch? That is the trade nobody mentions: a rough night swapped for a worse morning.
What helps
Settl has no melatonin. None. It’s made to get you to sleep faster and hold the back half of the night, with nothing to clear out of your system at 7am.
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Relaxed, not knocked out.
Nobody wants to fix one bad night by feeling drugged the next morning. Fair. A strong knockout gets you down fast, and the 3am problem is usually what happens after.
What helps
Settl isn’t a sedative. It supports your own wind-down, so you decide when the night starts, and you wake clear instead of heavy.
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You’re running dry.
Eight hours is the longest you go without water all day, and you spend it asleep. You wake with a dry mouth, reach for the glass on the bedside table, and now you’re properly awake.
9:30pmLast glass9 hours, no water6:30amAlarmWhat helps
An electrolyte layer, so eight hours without water does not wake you dried out and needing to get up. Settl has 1,000mg of sodium and 200mg of potassium in every scoop. If you take a morning electrolyte sachet, you’ll know the dose.
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It’s a ritual you finish, not a pill you skip.
Tablets get forgotten in a drawer. A scoop in cold water is a ten-second thing you actually do, every night, and a passionfruit drink you look forward to is far easier to keep up than another pill to swallow.
What helps
Scoop, stir, drink, about 30 minutes before bed. It dissolves in about ten seconds. The work happens before the lights go off, not at 3am.
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Every dose is on the label.
Most sleep products go quiet here. Settl shows each ingredient at its dose, per scoop. Seven ingredients, no melatonin.
- 3,000mgGlycine
- 200mgL-theanine
- 1,000mgSodium, the electrolyte layer
- 200mgPotassium
- 900mgInositol
- 146mgMagnesium, from magnesium glycinate
- 50mgChamomile flower extract
Natural passionfruit flavour, sweetened with thaumatin. No melatonin, no caffeine, no colours, low sugar. Packed in Sydney, in a TGA-licensed GMP facility.
Why I made it.
For two years I bought every ingredient on this page separately. Six jars on the bench at 9pm, six scoops, and me counting doses after the kids were finally down. Four of them, so it was never early.
So I put it in one tub. Same ingredients, same doses, one scoop. I’m taking it tonight, same as last night. Give Settl 30 nights. Not sleeping better? Email us and we refund your first tub. Keep the tub.
Cheers, Roy
Founder, Settl
From people who were up at 3am too.
“Two tubs in and the change I would point at is the second half of the night. It used to fall apart after two. Now it holds together until the alarm.”
“The 3am thing was the killer for me. Wake up, brain switches on, night over. That still happens now and then, but I get back down instead of lying there until five.”
“I was on melatonin for a year and hated the fog the next morning. This doesn’t do that. Clear head at six, none of that hungover feeling.”
The questions 3am wakers ask.
What if I’m tired but still wired?
That’s the one Settl is built around. One scoop in cold water as the last thing you do, with 200mg of L-theanine and 3,000mg of glycine, so the evening has somewhere to land.
Will it leave me groggy?
No melatonin, so there’s no hormone to clear when you wake up. That’s exactly why it isn’t in the formula.
What does it taste like?
Passionfruit, salty-sweet, a bit like a cordial. It tastes a little salty on purpose: that’s the 1,000mg of sodium. Sweetened with thaumatin, no caffeine, no colours.
What if it does nothing for me?
Give Settl 30 nights. Not sleeping better? Email us and we refund your first tub. No forms, no reason needed, no return shipping. Keep the tub.
How do I cancel or pause?
Skip, pause or cancel anytime from your account. No calls, no fees.
When will it arrive?
Order before 2pm Sydney time and it leaves Sydney the same day. Free shipping Australia-wide, 1 to 4 business days, tracking by email.
Who is it for?
Adults only. If you are pregnant, breastfeeding or on medication, check with your GP first. Settl is high in sodium, so if a health professional has told you to watch your salt, check with them before you use it.
Where is it made?
Packed in Sydney, in a TGA-licensed GMP facility. Settl is a food, not a listed medicine. That licence is not a TGA approval of this product and we do not hold one.
Try it for 30 nights.
Not sleeping better? Email us and we refund your first tub. Keep the tub.
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