For anyone awake at 3am

5 reasons you keep waking at 3am.

Most sleep aids are built to get you to sleep. Here’s what the back half of your night needs.

What one scoop of Settl is built for:

  • Get to sleep faster
  • Wake less at 3am
  • Sleep deeper
  • Wake up refreshed

5-minute read. By Roy, founder of Settl.

A woman sitting up in bed in the dark, the bedside clock glowing

Falling asleep and staying asleep are two different problems.

Most of what’s sold for sleep is aimed at the first one. Something to get you down, then nothing. Which works fine until 3:07am, when you’re lying there doing sums about how many hours you have left.

If the first half of your night is fine and the second half falls apart, a stronger knockout isn’t the answer. You need something built for the whole night. These are the five things usually behind it.

Your night, in three numbers.

8 hrs

The longest you go without a drink all day is the stretch you sleep through.

0 of 12

Sleep powders we checked on the Australian shelf that even mention sodium or electrolytes.

0mg

Melatonin in Settl. Nothing left to clear out of your system at 7am.

What’s usually behind the 3am wake-up.

  1. Your sleep aid clocked off hours ago.

    For a lot of people, melatonin covers half the night. It gets you to sleep, then you’re awake at 3am. The second half of the night has nothing holding it.

    Where each one is aimed across the night.

    What helps

    Something built for both halves. Settl has no melatonin in it. It’s made to get you to sleep faster and to hold the back half, so 3am isn’t where the night ends.

  2. You went to bed wired, not tired.

    Your body is done by nine. Your head is still going at eleven: tomorrow's list, the email you didn’t send, the thing someone said at lunch. You get there eventually, but the head is also the first thing to switch back on when you surface at 3am.

    A hand reaching for a glass on a lamp-lit bedside table at night

    What helps

    Settle the head 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.

  3. 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.

    What 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.

  4. Your nightcap works in reverse.

    A glass of wine gets you down fast. Then you pay for it in the back half, wide awake at 3am with a dry mouth and a busy head. It feels like it helps because the first half is so easy.

    Wine at 10pm

    First half
    Down fast
    3am
    Often wide awake
    7am
    Dry and foggy

    Settl at 10pm

    First half
    Get to sleep faster
    3am
    Built for the back half
    7am
    No melatonin, no fog

    What helps

    Keep the glass, change what’s in it. A tall glass of Settl, cold, passionfruit, no alcohol. Same moment at the end of the day, a very different 3am.

  5. You check the clock.

    You wake, you look, and it says 3:07. Now you’re doing maths: four hours left, if you drop off right now. It’s the maths that keeps you up, more than the waking.

    What helps

    Turn the clock to the wall and leave the phone across the room. If you wake, you don’t need the number. This one’s free.

Settl covers four of those five in one scoop.

One scoop in cold water, 30 minutes before bed. Seven ingredients, every dose on the label, no melatonin. The fifth reason is up to you.

A scoop of Settl being tipped into a tall glass of cold water beside the tub, on a kitchen bench at night
  • 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.

Three things people believe about sleep aids.

Myth

“Melatonin is the gentle, natural option.”

It’s a hormone signal, and it only covers the start of the night. If you wake at 3am, it isn’t aimed at your problem. Some people also feel it at 7am, as fog.

Myth

“Electrolytes are for the gym.”

They’re for any long stretch without water. The longest one in your day is the one you sleep through.

Myth

“If it doesn’t knock me out, it isn’t working.”

Settl isn’t a sedative. It supports your own wind-down, so you decide when the night starts, and there’s nothing to clear in the morning.

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.

4.7 out of 5 from 40+ reviews, all verified buyers

“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.”
Nicole F. Mount Eliza, VIC
“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.”
Dave R. Geelong, VIC
“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.”
Tom H. Fremantle, WA
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Ashlie and Georgia, on their own benches.

Before you try it.

When do I take it?

At the end of the day. One scoop in a tall glass of cold water, 30 minutes before bed, as the last thing you do. It dissolves in about ten seconds.

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.

A tub of Settl Passionfruit and a glass of the mixed drink on a bedside table, lit by a lamp at night

How to buy

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