SiS Rest & Recover for your evening routine
SiS Rest & Recover is a capsule supplement with magnesium and amino acids for athletes. The base is magnesium bisglycinate, supplemented with L-glycine, L-tryptophan, Montmorency cherry extract (CherryPURE®) and L-theanine. You take 4 capsules with water, about 30 minutes before going to sleep. A pot contains 120 capsules, so it lasts for 30 evenings.
What magnesium bisglycinate is
Magnesium exists in dozens of forms, such as magnesium oxide, magnesium citrate and magnesium bisglycinate. With magnesium bisglycinate, each magnesium ion is bound to two glycine molecules. Per daily dose of 4 capsules, you get 150mg of elemental magnesium, or 40% of the reference intake. That seems modest compared to pots that advertise 300mg, but SiS deliberately stays below the 250mg that is considered the safe upper limit for magnesium from supplements in Europe. Elemental here means: the pure magnesium itself, separate from the weight of the compound it is in.
What else is in the capsules besides magnesium
This is where Rest & Recover differs from a regular magnesium pot. Per daily dose, you get 1500mg of L-glycine, 220mg of L-tryptophan, 110mg of CherryPURE® and 100mg of L-theanine. These are not symbolic extras; many individual magnesium products add at most 50mg of glycine as an auxiliary substance. Glycine is the chelate partner of the magnesium and an amino acid. L-tryptophan is an amino acid that your body does not produce itself and that occurs in high-protein foods. CherryPURE® is a standardized extract of the Montmorency cherry (Prunus cerasus). L-theanine, finally, is an amino acid from green tea. The capsule wall is plant-based, made of hydroxypropyl methylcellulose.
Permitted health claims for magnesium
Magnesium contributes to the normal function of muscles and the normal function of the nervous system. It also contributes to normal psychological function, a normal energy-yielding metabolism and to the reduction of tiredness and fatigue. For the other ingredients, no permitted health claims are available, so we do not mention them.
Every batch through the Informed Sport lab
SiS has every production batch of Rest & Recover tested via Informed Sport, the independent certification program of the LGC laboratory. There, every batch is screened for substances from the WADA banned list before the product can leave the door. For competitive athletes, that is not a detail but a condition, and it is something you rarely encounter with drugstore brands. The formula consists of a mineral, three amino acids and a cherry extract, without melatonin: nutrients that you also get partly from your daily food, but then in fixed amounts per capsule.
Rest & Recover complements the SiS range for the evening. Four capsules in your evening routine, one pot lasts a month. SiS keeps it that simple.