Source Naturals Serene Science, GABA Calm - Supports A Calming Mood, Quick Dissolving Orange Flavor* - 120 Lozenges

I can’t sleep. Just can’t. If you’re here, you might be the same. I’ve taken Gaba, Kava, sleepy tea, prescriptions, camomile, melatonin, valerian root, etc All of these things work in some fashion when you find the right one. I have taken this for 3 or 4 days so far, when I do, the calmness settles in and when I lay down (tv on, the unhealthy habits still in play, just in case) and I actually feel the long forgotten wave of (what I believe is the feeling of sleepiness) come over me. It gets better, I fall asleep and I sleep through the night I got 10 hrs at least twice during my trial! Yes yes, I too am someone who doesn’t typically write reviews but I felt compelled here bc I am grateful, so grateful, when I find something that works. Now, some things you may want to know: - it says lozenge, but it’s only lozenge-esque. It more like a harder version of those chewable vitamin cs. I have been crunching them up a bit, then letting them dissolve. The taste is fine, good even. A very mild citrus flavor. - my “nature” of being: I’m tired and wired. I propel through my days with a baseline of anxiety that doesn’t typically bother me bc it’s what I know. But it doesn’t know how to shut off on its own. I cherish the time by myself at night, and I don’t usually feel that my body sends my brain the tired chemicals it needs to switch gears. So i sit waiting, and knowing I’m screwing myself for tomorrow but too apprehensive to even try to lay in the dark and face 5 hrs of “trying”‘to sleep as this attempt often leads to heart racing and more anxiety. Then I feel like I gotta get up and distract myself til I can restart the process. So I just put the tv on until it’s unreasonably late and pray sleep becomes me. Then I’m so exhausted the next day, I feel more spaced out wired in an on edge way that makes it really, really hard for me to relax enough to fall asleep. That’s where gaba comes in for me. It first takes care of that gyration inside of me and once that is at bay, it’s like only then, once the veil is lifted, can I feel the body telling me it’s tired. Summary version: my relative inability to calm down my nervous system at the end of the day is what keep me up. this brings that baseline anxiety down enough for me to relax and sleep. I hope and pray this will have the same effect with extended and routine use, but I don’t know that. However, I do usually take Gaba (or one of the other elixirs) to help me sleep and have been doing so for a while. So if there was a tolerance to be built, I would surely have one. I had been taken a well known vitamin brand of gaba in the orange bottle. It was hit or miss, to the point where I assumed it was just placebo when it worked. (I’m all for placebo, but a reliable placebo would be better!) Anyway, give this a chance if you too are a nut job who can easily stay up til 5am. It is certainly worth, at least the try. Good luck!

I love these. They help take away the sick feeling in my stomach.

Backstory: a couple years ago I met a unicorn. Real life, in the flesh, only it looked more like a prescribing psychiatrist who strongly advocated for healthy lifestyle choices and supplements before jumping to medication. She suggested these to just give a bit of natural anxiety support throughout the day, so I found myself pushing the second one back later and later so I could have the support for coming down after a stressful day. I don't know when I started, but it soon became an ingrained part of my winding-down-for-bed routine and I honestly don't know what I would do without it. These give fast, gentle anxiety support. That loosening in your chest, relaxing your jaw, wow-my-forehead-was-clenched feeling. We use them for coming down from panic attacks, warding off anxiety (especially anxiety that makes us irritable), sleeping, you name it. They are integral to our routines. I personally love the orange flavor, it's very subtle. I'm a first time mom with sparkling brand new hormonal insomnia and postpartum anxiety that could write its own horror novel, and these are still the support I can't be without. The ONLY con: they are not coated so they are very susceptible to humidity and will disintegrate quickly. Keep them in the original bottle with the cotton and you're golden. Just know that for travel you're going to have to make room for the entire bottle or find a similar way to transport them. You can't just throw them in a plastic bag. Trust me.

I have ordered these three or four times now. I loved it the first couple of times, but this last bottle doesn’t seem to be the same. The other bottles definitely calmed my mind and helped me go to sleep. The bottle I just got in seems to be doing the opposite. I haven’t been able to sleep the past week and they seem to keep me up instead of calming me . The tablets seem harder to chew as well, so I’m questioning whether they are the same product.

Highly recommended! I am normally high strung and intense.....at least that's how most people describe me I have used this product for a couple years and it does calm me down without a brain fog. I find one or two tablets takes the edge off and lets me focus on the tasks at hand.

I like Source Naturals brand of products and my approval extends to their GABA lozenges. These help so much with mood and anxiety. What I like about these is you are able to suck on them and the orange flavor is not bad at all. Pleasant actually and within 40 to 60 minutes I am getting relief.

I have been taking GABA for my anxiety for quite some time. I actually stopped for about a year and a half because I felt like my body was getting used to it, and it wasn't having the desired effect. I bought this because I was having some stress due to a difficult situation in my life. I like the lozenge because swallowing pills can be difficult for some people, and it supposedly has a faster effect. I took it for a week or so and felt fine. I didn't notice any reduction in anxiety, but I didn't have a negative effect either. I took it one evening and noticed that I felt very upset after. Keep in mind that I had taken GABA pills and powder regularly in the past, but stopped for a year and a half. I had to stop taking this product because it made me feel very uneasy and over-emotional about a week after I started taking it at the recommended dosage. I understand that many other people have given this product a great review, and I am glad that it worked for them, but it has had a negative reaction in my body and mind. I had to throw it out. I am curious if it's because this is a lozenge placed under the tongue and maybe it gets absorbed too quickly? I don't know, but a supplement that used to work for me now has failed and I want to warn people that if you experience any type of negative emotional reaction after taking this, YOU SHOULD STOP IMMEDIATELY!!