Here's what most people don't know:
Joint discomfort and poor sleep aren't just two separate problems that happen to show up at the same time.
They feed each other.
Inflammation in your joints disrupts the deeper stages of sleep your body needs to repair itself.
But then — because you're not sleeping deeply — your body can't properly regulate inflammation the next day. You wake up more stiff, more achy, and more exhausted than the night before.
It's a cycle. And most of what's out there, melatonin, OTC sleep aids, anti-inflammatory pills, only addresses one piece of it, while making the other piece worse.
Melatonin can help you fall asleep but does nothing for the ache that wakes you up at 2am.
OTC sleep aids like Unisom and ZzzQuil can knock you out, but the reviews tell the full story: groggy mornings, dry mouth, hair loss, dependency, and for a lot of people over 55, they just stop working.
Ibuprofen and NSAIDs? Long-term use comes with its own set of problems. Nobody wants to be on pills forever.
Colin's mother had tried all of it. Nothing worked.
So Colin went back to the lab.