February 2009 - Posts
By Jasmin Aline Persch, contributing writer
What it is: PearlyDreams Sleep Enhancing Toothpaste; $19.95, plus shipping; www.pearlydreams.net
What it claims to do: Help you sleep and maintain your teeth. PearlyDreams toothpaste, created and patented by a New York dentist, purportedly works by absorbing through the “thousands of tiny blood vessels in your mouth.” The toothpaste has the natural supplements melatonin, valerian, balm mint and passionflower “known to relax, calm, and help the body drift off to sleep,” according to the manufacturer.
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by Melissa Dahl, health editor
What it is: 5-Hour Energy, a teeny, 2-fl. oz. drink priced at about $3.99.
What it claims to do:Boost your energy for five hours – without the caffeine crash later.
My experience: I’ve recently discovered that I am becoming old. Not physically old, mind you; I’m still several weeks shy of my 24th birthday. No, the other, lamer kind of old – the kind who secretly wants to be asleep by 11 on a Friday night. The younger of the voices in my head, however, rarely allows this, and constantly berates me to act my age. And so began my quest to find an energy drink that I can stomach – and one that actually works.
Coffee makes me jittery, and most energy drinks taste horrible; plus, many of them have tons of sugar and upwards of 200 calories. That’s what initially drew me to the 5-Hour Energy drink: It has only four calories, and no sugar. I was skeptical that a drink this little could actually do what it claims, but I tried it on a Friday night, at dinner with a friend.
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