Many people considering CBD for the first time often wonder about its effects on alertness and energy levels, particularly whether CBD makes you feel sleepy during the day. While CBD (cannabidiol) has gained popularity for its potential wellness benefits, its impact on sleep and drowsiness isn’t as straightforward as you might think. Understanding how CBD interacts with your body’s endocannabinoid system can help explain why some users experience relaxation without significant drowsiness, while others might use it specifically as a natural sleep aid.
This comprehensive guide by New Phase Blends will explore the relationship between CBD and sleepiness, helping you make an informed decision about when and how to use CBD products.
Does CBD Make You Sleepy or Tired?
CBD (Cannabidiol)Â might make you feel a little more relaxed after taking it, but it really shouldn’t make you sleepy or tired on it’s own. Unless…you take very high doses of it. We’ll get into this subject later on.
Legitimate CBD products can offer a sedative effect on people. This is why consumers report that CBD helps reduce anxiety and other mental issues related to episodes like racing minds.
Why is that?
Cortisol is a hormone our bodies produce that helps us manage stress. This hormone peaks in the morning for most people. Insomniacs aside, having high cortisol levels at night is associated with an increased number of awakenings in the middle of the night.
According to an article titled Cannabidiol in Anxiety and Sleep: A Large Case Series (2019) scientists discovered that cortisol levels may drop quite a bit when subjects consumed 300 to 600mg of genuine CBD oil.
From the looks of this study, researchers agree CBD may affect cortisol levels in our bodies. This means CBD may act as a sedative.
To put this into perspective, 300 to 600 mg of CBD is a LOT OF CBD! I would not recommend anyone take this much CBD in a serving. Our most potent sleep product offers 66mg of a pure, CBD-rich hemp extract per serving.Â
This means these test subjects were taking anywhere from 3.5x to 7x the recommended serving! Wow!
No wonder this CBD made them feel sleepy. That said, does CBD make you tired? According to this study, only if you take WAY too much.
Not only is that a lot of CBD, its financially taxing on the wallet. Using that much CBD oil per night would cost hundreds and hundreds of dollars per month.
So, How Can CBD Help With Sleep Issues?
CBD may help some users with their sleep issues. While plain CBD is effective for things like pain management, inflammation, and anxiety relief, we know it is not great when it comes to the need to improve sleep quality.
Taking something like CBD gummies for pain works quite well, but that same CBD gummy may not help you sleep just as effectively.
That is…until you blend CBD with other natural, scientifically studied sleep aids like melatonin. Researchers use the term ‘synergistic’ to describe an effect that occurs between two or more substances that work better together than they do alone.
How to Make Sure CBD Will Make You Feel Sleepy
New Phase Blends, one of the leading CBD brands in the industry, developed a patent-pending product that revolves around blending melatonin with a CBD-rich hemp extract to help improve sleep quality. Combining CBD and melatonin is one of the most effective ways to ensure CBD will make you tired.
Users of this powerful, CBD-based sleep aid do not need to take an enormous amount of CBD either. New Phase Blends discovered that melatonin (a hormone responsible for regulating our sleep/wake cycle) can work synergistically when taken together.
That means that only a little amount of melatonin (3 mg per serving) and CBD (66 mg per serving) may put people into the deepest sleep they’ve had in a long time. This is (by FAR) the most effective way to use CBD oil for sleep.
Users should take this powerful, natural sleep enhancer anywhere from one hour to 30 minutes before their normal bedtime. Although most users report getting better sleep on the first or second night, it can take several nights for this product to make you feel sleepy again.
There’s also a money back guarantee on all products from New Phase Blends. If you don’t like our products, just return them for all of your money back. That’s it!
Why Does CBD Make You Feel Tired?
CBD makes you feel tired because of how it interacts with your body. CBD interacts with the endocannabinoid system (ECS) within our bodies in order to illicit certain responses, like pain reduction or anti-inflammatory effects. The endocannabinoid system is made up of a network of different cells that send signals to each other. As you can see, they are located all throughout our body. A large portion are found in the central nervous system. CBD interacts with receptors that make up the ECS.
Regardless, this is why CBD can affect our body so well. You can thank your endocannabinoid system.
Can CBD Oil Help You Sleep?
If your sleep problems stem from anxiety or anxiousness that keeps you up at night, sure, it might help you sleep. People report using CBD to help their anxiety, and they claim it works really well for this. However, if your sleep troubles are more severe, you may not want to try a normal CBD oil product to help you sleep.
Stick to something with melatonin in it, since the two compounds (CBD and melatonin) work synergistically together.
Why is it good?
As long as the plain CBD products carry a genuine CBD extract, it’s good because more people are getting access to it. This product is incredible at helping with things like pain, inflammation, and anxiety management.
Why is it bad?
The typical consumer is still quite uneducated about CBD oil products and what forms of relief they actually aid with. This means companies try to make all sorts of claims about their products that are just not true (like CBD is an excellent at improving sleep quality).
Large Amounts of CBD Are Needed to Make You Tired
If you are looking to use CBD by itself to make you tired, you’ll likely be disappointed. Hemp extract (or CBD extract) is NOT effective at making people tired. To be honest, reports do mention that CBD can be used for sleep, but test subjects took roughly 5 – 20x the amount of CBD taken in a normal dose. When you blend it with other compounds, however, it produces a synergistic effect that results in one of the most powerful over the counter compounds to help get a good night’s sleep.
If you are looking to take something to get tired, a standard 1,000mg CBD oil tincture or even a 2,000mg CBD oil tincture may not do the trick for you.
CBD and Drowsiness the Next Day
It is entirely possible that using CBD can make you feel drowsy the next day. While CBD doesn’t normally have many side effects, drowsiness is one of them. The thing is, most of these side effects are noticed after taking too much CBD.
How much is too much?
Since there is no standard dosage issued for CBD products, it’s kind of user dependent. I, personally, would consider 75mg of CBD in a serving a lot, and this much could potentially make you drowsy.
Summary
Does CBD make you tired or sleepy? Is it a good supplement to use to get better sleep?
On it’s own, in recommended dosages –Â no, it will not make your sleepy or tired. CBD, by itself, is a relatively poor sleep aid. A vast majority of the time, people only report feeling sleepy after taking plain CBD oil when they take too much of it.
Taking too much of any substance is usually a big no no.
The alternative is to use a CBD and melatonin sleep aid that works synergistically to help you get a deep sleep, without having to take a ton of CBD or melatonin. This is the real key to better sleep.
