Don't Disturb Me!

Does Don't Disturb Me! (Asphalia) contain any animal matter?
No. Asphalia is entirely derived from plant and berries and the encapsulation is via veg-caps, not gelatine made from animals.

Has Don't Disturb Me! (Asphalia) ever been tested on animals?
No. Our laboratory has a strict policy of never carrying out experiments on animals.

Where is Don't Disturb Me! (Asphalia) made?
The main ingredient in Don't Disturb Me! (Asphalia) is grown and processed within the Asphalia estates in the countryside near Pontypool. We never use artificial fertilizers on the estate, nor have done for the ten years prior to development of the Asphalia product. The plant material is cut and immediately dried very slowly in incubators never exceeding 40 degrees Centigrade, so there is no protein degradation or denaturation.

How do you know Don't Disturb Me! (Asphalia) works?
We have conducted trials with human volunteers and these have not only proven successful but also demonstrated an absence of side effects. One way we can test it in the laboratory is by using the well known Griess reaction, a test for nitrate formation in aqueous solutions. Don't Disturb Me! (Asphalia) is shown to prevent the build up of free radicals such as Nitric Oxide and their consequential nitrates which can be potentially damaging to health.

Most anti-oxidants are made using Vitamin C and Vitamin E. Melatonin is five times as powerful as Vitamin C and twice as powerful as Vitamin E. Don't Disturb Me! (Asphalia) is probably 500 times as powerful as the synthetic antioxidants.

Are there any product warnings for Asphalia?
Melatonin is generally regarded as one of the safest bio-molecules around. With no known side effects, it was described by a Vice President of Eli Lily as the ‘safest molecule in the whole of pharmacy’. Nevertheless, melatonin may make you drowsy so we recommend that users do not drive a vehicle or operate machinery after ingestion.

We also do not advocate administration to infants and very young children, since they should be sufficiently provided by their own systems and there is a remote though unproven possibility that administration of exogenous melatonin may interfere with their normal development. For the same reason children under 12 should only be given half a dose. We also suggest avoiding melatonin if you are pregnant, especially in the last term of pregnancy. Again, there is no actual evidence, but since the lactating mother provides melatonin to her new infant for some weeks, it is arguably wise to let nature take its course. Normally toxicity can be defined by the LD50 test: this is the test (Lethal Dose 50 percent) which finds how much dose of a toxin is necessary to kill 50 percent of the test animals. In the case of melatonin even though both humans and animals have been tested with massive doses, no LD50 was ever found.