The Madonna biopicset at Universal Pictures has been scrapped, Deadline has confirmed.
The studio had no comment on the matter. But the news comes following Madonna’s announcement that she’ll be setting off on a 35-city global tour, referred to as The Celebration Tour, on July 15. She’ll launch it at Vancouver’s Rogers Arena with stops in Detroit, Chicago, New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Boston, Cleveland, Denver and other North American cities to follow, ahead of an 11-city European leg beginning October 14.
Madonna was to have directed the biopic on her own life and career, having penned drafts of the script with both Academy Award winner Diablo Cody (Juno) and Independent Spirit Award winner Erin Cressida Wilson (The Girl on the Train). Three-time Emmy-winning Ozark star Julia Garner emerged as Madonna’s choice to play her after proving a standout in a singing and dancing bootcamp.
Upcoming projects remaining on the in-demand actress’s dance card include the Kitty Green thriller The Royal Hotel and Paramount Players’ Apartment 7A.
Crumpets are round, savory griddle cakes.
Deborah Ackerley
Crumpets are a classic British food usually enjoyed toasted for breakfast or afternoon tea.
These round, savory griddle cakes are made with a batter of water, milk, flour, and yeast. They’re fluffy on the inside and contain lots of small holes.
You can make them yourself, but I love store-bought crumpets, as well. You pop them in the toaster and they’re ready in an instant.
They’re usually served hot with butter and strawberry preserves, or with other toppings such as marmalade, cream cheese, or Marmite (a yeasty, savory British spread).
I’ve found them in US supermarkets, but I think they taste heavy and not nearly as good.
When you think of the North Pole’s location, you probably imagine it is the centermost point at the top of our planet. However, the North Magnetic Pole has actually been moving gradually since away from the location it was first documented back in the 1830s. Now, scientists say we may finally understand why it’s moving.
A new study published in the journal Nature Geoscience suggests that the changes in the North Pole’s location are explained by the movement of molten material in Earth’s interior. This, they say, has caused a titanic shift in the planet’s magnetic field. Essentially, the molten iron at the core of our planet helps to determine where Earth’s magnetic field downs down.
A diagram showing how the Earth’s magnetic field points downward and also how it protects from solar radiation. Image source: koya979 / Adobe
It is this exact position that is affected by the movements of the planet’s core. And, as this position changes, so too does the North Pole’s location. Scientists say that the current direction of the pole’s movement is caused by a “blip in the pattern” of the flow inside of the Earth’s interior. This blip, they believe, occurred somewhere between 1970 and 1999.
Because the blip happened, the Canadian field of the North Pole itself has become elongated, losing its influence over the Earth’s magnetosphere. This has caused the North Pole’s location to move quickly towards a magnetic field located under Siberia. The researchers say that our northern magnetic pole is controlled by these two patches, or blobs.
And it’s these blobs that have kept the North Pole’s location in a constant state of tug of war. But, because the Canadian portion of this field has elongated and become weaker, the pole’s location has quickly found itself drawn to the field in Siberia.
Of course, this doesn’t change the physical location of the North Pole, but it could have huge implications for the planet’s magnetic field, which is responsible for keeping the planet’s rotation in order, as well as for protecting against charged solar energy from solar flares and storms. This field is also important for navigation systems like GPS and even the compass.
The daughter of Brazilian football legend Pelé took to Instagram late Friday to post a moving tribute and picture of her father at the Albert Einstein Jewish Hospital in São Paulo.
“We continue to be here, in fight and in faith. One more night together,” wrote Kely Nascimento.
Her words accompanied a photo showing her hugging her father as he lies on a hospital bed. Pelé’s granddaughter Sophia can also be seen in the photo.
Nascimento posted earlier in the week that her father would spend Christmas in hospital.
Pelé, 82, was admitted on November 29 for a respiratory infection and “re-evaluation of the chemotherapy treatment over colon cancer identified in September 2021,” according to a hospital statement.
Updates from the hospital earlier this week said that Pelé’s health had worsened and he would now require greater care due to the progression of his cancer.
Nascimento has previously thanked well-wishers for their tributes and messages of support.
“Our Christmas at home has been suspended,” Nascimento wrote in a post on Wednesday. “We decided with the doctors that, for various reasons, it would be better for us to stay (at the hospital), with all the care that this new family … Einstein gives us!!” added Nascimento.
After Pelé was hospitalized in November, Nascimento explained that the former soccer player had had Covid-19, despite being vaccinated “with all doses,” and because the chemotherapy had made him more fragile, he contracted a lung infection.
Born Edson Arantes do Nascimento and widely considered to be one of the greatest soccer players in history, Pelé played in four World Cups, winning three – in 1958, 1962, 1970 – as well as scoring 12 goals in 14 games.
He also scored 1,281 goals in his professional career in 1,363 games.
The hierarchy of power did change at DC, just not in the way Dwayne Johnson intended it.
Black Adam, the DC superhero movie that Johnson starred in and produced, was to have launched a new franchise, but Johnson announced Tuesday that plans for a sequel were halted and will not be moving forward any time soon.
The move comes as new DC Studios bosses James Gunn and Peter Safran, installed just weeks after the movie’s October release, reshape the entire DC slate, with projects such as Henry Cavill’s Man of Steel sequel and Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman 3 falling by the wayside.
“James Gunn and I connected, and Black Adamwill not be in their first chapter of storytelling,” Johnson wrote in a statement Tuesday. “However, DC and Seven Bucks have agreed to continue exploring the most valuable ways Black Adam can be utilized in future DC multiverse chapters.”
Gunn shared his own statement, writing, “Love @TheRock & I’m always excited to see what he & Seven Bucks do next. Can’t wait to collaborate soon.”
Adam, released Oct. 21, was a passion project for Johnson, who was attached to play the character for a good 15 years before it hit theaters. During that time, Johnson became one of the biggest actors in the world and in 2017 used his clout to convince Warner Bros. and New Line to develop a solo Black Adam film, rather than have the character introduced in Shazam! as a villain. (In the comics, Black Adam is villain in Shazam’s rogue gallery.)
Ahead of its release, Johnson touted plans to develop his own corner of the DC Universe centered on Black Adam characters such as the Justice Society of America, as well as a future Black Adam vs. Superman movie, a showdown teased in a post-credit scene that temporarily brought Henry Cavill back as Superman for the first time since Justice League (2017). In many promotional appearances, Johnson even used a phrase that became the movie’s unofficial tagline as he sought to raise his corner of the DC slate to prominence: “The hierarchy of power in the DC Universe is about to change.”
However, Adam disappointed at the box office with $391 million globally and earned poor reviews. That wouldn’t necessarily be a problem to launch a sequel if not for several factors. One, the movie was inordinately expensive. Greenlit at $190 million, the movie’s costs ballooned to the $260 million mark, according to sources, especially after a costly 20-day round of reshoots undertaken after a poor test screening. That does not include marketing costs.
The movie will not be profitable theatrically, as noted in a Dec. 5 Variety story, which then unleashed a tit-for-tat in the press over a more detailed accounting of the movie’s money-making, with rival Deadline spinning a different tune two days later. Johnson weighed in himself about the movie’s profitability with a Twitter post, a very unusual move for an actor or producer to make. It also put the actor in a defensive crouch and still talking about a potential franchise regarding a movie who’s future even then was very much in doubt.
In recent days, rumors swirled about a feud between Johnson and the studio. Reports surfaced that Johnson unfollowed Warner Bros. Discovery and Black Adam channels only to have Johnson come out and say he never followed them in the first place. Johnson had not publicly commented on the hiring of Gunn and Safran with many observers pointing to underlying tension between the two camps.
However, Johnson noted that the two have a good relationship.
“James and I have known each other for years and have always rooted for each other to succeed,” Johnson wrote Tuesday. “It’s no different now, and I will always wrote for DC (and Marvel) to win and WIN BIG.”
It all looked very different two months ago, when Johnson was feeling wistful at Black Adam‘s New York premiere Oct. 12, where he told reporters about his first day in costume. Said the actor: “I just took a look in the mirror — it was a very humbling moment because I fought so hard for this movie to get this movie made, and keep it on track. Fifteen long years, and here we are.”
As you’ve heard from the meteorologists at Minnesota’s Weather Authority, bitter cold is moving into the upper Midwest.
Monday’s high is 14 degrees with a low of 1, and temperatures will only get colder as the week goes on.
As of Monday, Dec. 19, 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS Chief Meteorologist Ken Barlow predicts the following benchmarks:
Monday: high of 14, low of 1, light snow in some areas
Tuesday: high of 6, low of -8
Wednesday: high of 2, low of -3, several inches of snow by late night
Thursday: high of -1, low of -8, wind chill between -25 and -35
Friday: high of zero, low of -9, wind chill between -25 and -35
Christmas Eve: high of 2, low of -7
Christmas Day: high of 10, low of 5
If you haven’t prepared already, Monday is the day to get ready for oncoming below-zero temperatures. CLICK HERE for safety and home prep tips for extreme cold from Minnesota’s Weather Authority.
Those who need a place to escape the cold can go to several warming shelter locations in the Twin Cities. Learn more about warming shelters from 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS reporter Andrea Lyon in the video player at the bottom of this article.
Click here for more about Ramsey County warming locations, and here for centers in Hennepin County.
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Learn about the dangers of extreme cold with this information guide from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Early in the pandemic, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis repeatedly praised President Donald Trump for the expedited development and rollout of a coronavirus vaccine. The governor’s office pushed for $480 million in pandemic resources, including media campaigns promoting the shots, according to state budget documents. And DeSantis, a Republican, even lauded the Biden administration for helping to expand access to vaccines.
“We’re having more vaccine because of this, which is great,” DeSantis said of a federal program shipping shots to pharmacies in February 2021.
But this past week, DeSantis threw himself intomisleadingly disparaging the vaccines, convening skeptics to buck guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and seeking to investigate vaccine makers for fraud.
“These companies have made a fortune off this federal government imposing or at least attempting to impose mandates, and a lot of false statements,” DeSantis said at the roundtable event on Wednesday. “I think people want the truth and I think people want accountability, so you need to have a thorough investigation into what’s happened with these shots.”
A review of DeSantis’s public positions on the vaccines shows a full reversal that has unfolded gradually since 2021, seizing on the shots’ waning efficacy against new virus variants and portraying evolving scientific advice as deliberate deceit.
The hard-line position he’s now staking out is taking on additional significance: DeSantis is widely seen as a potential presidential candidate in 2024, with many Republicans wanting him to challenge Trump for the GOP nomination and some seeing vaccines as a potential wedge issue to outflank the former president to his right.
“We know he’s not really anti-vax, he’s on the record, but now he’s taking this position for really blatant political purposes, it appears, and it’s really undermining to health care professionals,” said Dr. David Pate, a retired health systems executive and lifelong Republican who has advised Idaho Gov. Brad Little (R). “I’m not sure what the gain is, because he’s already got the base, and now this is just going to alienate moderates and independents.”
Spokespeople for DeSantis did not respond to detailed questions and requests for comment.
Trump has all but acknowledged his potential vulnerability on the issue of vaccines. He was booed in December 2021 for saying he received a booster shot. Then, at a rally in Alaska in July, he touted his administration’s response to the pandemic while avoiding using the word “vaccine.”
Tensions have grown between the two men as Trump formally announced his 2024 candidacy and DeSantis has risen as a potential rival, with chants of “two more years” at his reelection victory party on Nov. 8. Several early primary polls have shown DeSantis leading Trump; a CNN survey this month found one of the steepest drops in support for Trump’s 2024 bid among voters who describe themselves as very conservative. Skepticism about the vaccines and guidance from government health agencies has been palpable in the far-right wing of the party in recent years.
DeSantis’s event succeeded in drawing cheers from pro-Trump corners of the far-right. “What I like about DeSantis, he’s probably not a guy you’d like to run at, let’s go have a beer, but he’s all business,” former Trump strategist Stephen K. Bannon said on his podcast.
Supporters of DeSantis pushed back on suggestions — including from Trump allies — that the vaccine announcements were meant to outflank Trump ahead of a potential 2024 clash.
“If the left comes at him and says, you flipped because you want to be more anti-vaccine than Trump, he’s just gonna kill ’em with facts,” said Eric Anton, a GOP donor who said DeSantis would be one of his top choices for 2024. “If you want to call that political, then I think you’re too political.”
Even before DeSantis solidified his standing as the leading GOP alternative to Trump following a decisive reelection win, Republican strategists were quietly discussing Trump’s handling of the pandemic as a point of attack for DeSantis. But embracing a hostile position toward vaccines is not without political risk in the long run.
A Kaiser Family Foundation survey released Friday found 75 percent of U.S. adults have received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine, and half of adults are fully vaccinated and have received at least one booster shot. Most Republicans, too, are fully vaccinated, according to the survey, though they were less eager to get the updated booster than Democrats.
Public health experts voiced concern that DeSantis’s roundtable event could contribute to undermining public confidence in vaccines, especially for Florida seniors at high risk for severe covid.
“Initially his position was much more reasoned where he was actually saying vaccines are an important tool but maybe he didn’t think it was necessary to mandate that. That’s a reasonable debate to have,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, a professor of epidemiology and director of the Pandemic Center at the Brown University School of Public Health. “Where I feel that the argument has improperly gone is to try to impugn the safety of these vaccines. … I hate to think that people’s takeaway is going to be that these vaccines are not safe and effective, and that is just simply false.”
DeSantis began as a full-throated supporter of the vaccines before he started bashing them.
Throughout 2020, DeSantis repeatedly praised the Trump administration for working with industry to accelerate vaccine development, production and distribution, an effort known as “Operation Warp Speed.”
“I think they’re putting all hands on deck for it,” he said in one interview on Fox News Channel. “I applaud the president. I think that’s the right approach.”
As the vaccine became available in 2021, DeSantis defended the rollout against frustrations with initially scarce supplies. “I can tell you, we wish we have had more vaccine every week, but it’s just being produced,” he said in a February interview with Fox News. “So, I think, by and large, the Warp Speed team did a great job.”
DeSantis appeared in person at vaccination-related events, such as a February visit to a World War II veteran, a stadium appearance in Pahokee, Fla., and a March discussion highlighting “Florida’s status as a national leader on vaccine distribution.” His office also touted partnerships with companies such as Publix supermarkets, a vaccine site for law enforcement officers and a rural vaccination initiative.
In the face of new variants that threatened to blunt the effectiveness of vaccinations, DeSantis stood by the shots. “We’ve not seen any data or any evidence to suggest these vaccines are not effective,” he said at a February 2021 news conference.
As the Biden administration took over, DeSantis demanded that the federal government’s “sole focus” be on increasing vaccine supplies, which he promised his state would deliver right away. He also attributed the vaccines’ successes to Trump.
“I think the credit goes to President Trump,” he said in an interview with right-wing radio host Mark Levin in April 2021. “If we’d had a Biden, or heck, if we’d had some establishment Republican, they would have gotten drowned out in bureaucracy. This would never have gotten done.”
In another Fox News interview that month, DeSantis said the state’s efforts to encourage vaccinations, especially among seniors, succeeded in bringing down hospitalization rates. He was so enthusiastic about the vaccines’ effectiveness that he criticized the CDC for initially advising vaccinated people to continue wearing masks and social distancing.
“I think the messaging should be, ‘Get a vaccine because it’s good for you to do it. It works. You’re not going to have to have to be doing anything abnormal. You can live your life,’” DeSantis told a crowd at an April 2021 event in Lakeland. “That’s got to be what the message is.”
He also specifically endorsed the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines, which were developed using an innovative mRNA technology that DeSantis has more recently criticized in public statements. Back in March 2021, when production problems caused a shortage of the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine, DeSantis encouraged people to get the mRNA shots instead. “If you have your heart set on Johnson & Johnson but you are able to get Pfizer or Moderna, I would say get it,” he said at the time.
Later in 2021, DeSantis’s office formally asked state lawmakers to approve $480 million in additional funding for the state’s health department, specifying that the money would support coronavirus testing, medical staffing and “Media and Education campaigns in response to COVID-19 and associated vaccinations.” The current state budget authorizes using leftover money for fighting covid, including testing and “immunization.”
“If you are vaccinated, fully vaccinated, the chance of you getting seriously ill or dying from covid is effectively zero,” DeSantis said in July 2021. “These vaccines are saving lives.”
DeSantis began his shift away from vaccines by opposing mandates, calling a special legislative session to ban employer requirements in 2021. By January 2022, after Trump was booed, DeSantis wouldn’t say whether he’d received a booster. “I’ve done whatever I did,” he said. “The normal shot, and that at the end of the day is people’s individual decisions about what they want to do.”
The governor appointed a state surgeon general, Joseph Ladapo, who advised young men against getting vaccinated, citing a preliminary analysis that was not signed or peer reviewed and that was denounced by medical and public health leaders. Ladapo has given interviews on podcasts associated with the groundless QAnon conspiracy theory — an extremist movement the FBI has designated as a domestic terrorism threat. Back in 2020, Ladapo participated in an event with a right-wing group that promoted false covid treatments.
“You expect disinformation from social media, but to actually have these folks holding government positions is really a slap in the face in the health-care profession,” said Pate, the retired health-care executive.
DeSantis invited Ladapo to present that discredited research at Wednesday’s event, before appointing him to lead a state panel that would issue its own guidance to rival the CDC’s. The other panel members, introduced at the event, are prominent critics of the vaccines. They include the authors of a controversial open letter calling for lifting pandemic restrictions and letting the virus spread to achieve “herd immunity,” as well as an emergency room physician whose studies on adverse reactions to the vaccines have been rebutted by experts. At DeSantis’s prompting, the ER doctor said calling the vaccines safe and effective is “a lie. It has to be.”
At the event, DeSantis also announced a petition to the Florida Supreme Court to establish a grand jury to investigate fraud related to the vaccines. The formal petition cited government and company statements about the vaccines’ protection against infection over time. But instead of understanding those statements as reflecting evolving scientific evidence and resistant new variants, the petition alleges a conspiracy.
“It is impossible to imagine that so many influential individuals came to this view on their own,” reads the petition, signed by DeSantis. “Rather, it is likely that individuals and companies with an incentive to do so created these perceptions for financial gain.”
In a statement, Pfizer said regulatory agencies around the world approved the company’s vaccine based on independent evaluations of scientific data on safety and efficacy, confirmed by real-world studies. “Over the course of this deadly pandemic, mRNA vaccines have saved hundreds of thousands of lives, tens of billions of dollars in health care costs, and enabled people worldwide to go about their lives more freely,” the company said.
Nuzzo, the Brown epidemiologist, said the vaccines’ safety has been proven by the billions of doses delivered worldwide. There are rare cases of heart inflammation in young men that scientists are working to avoid with measures such as spacing out doses.
“Those are reasonable, science-based questions to have,” she said. “But when dressed as, ‘I’m going to ask for a legal investigation, that was just irresponsible. … You gave a national platform to them to basically advance the goal of anti-vaxxers.”
Hannah Knowles, Fenit Nirappiland Scott Clement contributed to this report.
In July, the DOD set up the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office to, among other things, identify ‘unidentified anomalous phenomena’ which might pose a threat to national security and the operations of both the military and other federal agencies.
“Unidentified anomalous phenomena,” is anything in space, in the air, on land, in the sea or under the sea that can’t be identified, and which might pose a threat to U.S. military installations or operations.
“We have an important and yet challenging mission to lead an interagency effort to document, collect, analyze and when possible, resolve reports of any unidentified anomalous phenomena,” said Sean M. Kirkpatrick, the director of AARO.
Since the AARO office stood up this summer, Kirkpatrick said his team there has made significant headway in setting up its mission.
“We’ve transferred the data and responsibilities from the previous Navy-led UAP task force, and disestablished it,” he said. “During that transition, we’ve taken the opportunity to expand and standardize and integrate UAP reporting and reevaluate the data we’ve collected.”
The AARO has an array of UAP reports that are historical in nature to evaluate, and it is also getting new reports in as well. Kirkpatrick said the AARO will need to apply “a rigorous methodology” to the work of analyzing both old and new reports and that his team has developed an analytic framework to do just that.
[We’re] working with the military departments and the Joint Staff to normalize, integrate and expand UAP reporting beyond the aviators — to all service members — including mariners, submariners and our space Guardians.”
Sean M. Kirkpatrick, Director, AARO
In the past, the type of work AARO is charged with performing now involved only reports of anomalous phenomena that were seen in the air. But that has changed. Now, AARO expects to evaluate anomalous phenomena across all domains. And that means that individuals who operate in those other domains are also free now to file UAP reports. That’s something Kirkpatrick said the AARO has been working with the services on.
“[We’re] working with the military departments and the Joint Staff to normalize, integrate and expand UAP reporting beyond the aviators — to all service members — including mariners, submariners and our space Guardians,” Kirkpatrick said.
Also, an effort of AARO, Kirkpatrick said, is working with both the military services and the intelligence community to ensure that the activities of the U.S. government itself don’t end up as reports of a UAP.
“We are setting up very clear mechanisms with our ‘blue’ programs, both our DOD and IC programs, to deconflict any observations that come in with ‘blue’ activity to ensure that we weed those out and we can identify those fairly early on,” Kirkpatrick said.
AARO is a new office within the DOD, and Kirkpatrick said that from the start, the office is working hard to establish a standard of operations that is both thorough and rigorous.
“We apply the highest analytic and scientific standards,” he said. “We execute our mission objectively and without sensationalism and we do not rush to conclusions.”
The work of the AARO is not done in a vacuum. Instead, it’s obligated to keep Congress abreast of what it is doing with regular reports, said Ronald Moultrie, under secretary of defense for intelligence and security.
“Since establishment, AARO has been providing regular updates to Congress on its efforts to document, analyze and resolve reports of anomalous phenomena,” Moultrie said. “The department has already submitted its first congressionally-mandated quarterly reports on UAP in August and November, and we will continue to provide quarterly updates.”
Congress is not alone in wanting to know more about unidentified anomalous phenomena. The American public does as well, said Moultrie. And AARO and the department are committed to transparency there.
“The department takes public interest in UAPs seriously,” Moultrie said. “As I said to congressional leaders in May, we are fully committed to the principles of openness and accountability to the American people. We are committed to sharing as much detail with the public as we can.”
Quality rest is a vital factor for maintaining your mental and physical health, but the struggle to fall asleep is real for the 70 million Americans who live with chronic sleep issues. When you’ve tried every sleep remedy in the book, from bedtime yoga to melatonin, and you can’t seem to knock out at night, this supplement might do the trick.
Enter gamma-aminobutyric acid.
It’s an amino acid naturally found in the body and promotes a calming effect. GABA is often taken as dietary supplement, but it has a track record showing it may be a good alternative sleep aid to melatonin. It only affects the early sleep stages, and leaves you feeling more awake in the morning as a result, whereas some people claim popular sleep supplements like melatonin make them groggy. Although there’s limited research, the small studies performed yield positive results that show GABA may be worth a try if you’re unable to fall asleep.
Here’s what we know about GABA, tips on taking it and why it might be viable sleep aid to consider if you have trouble falling asleep.
For more help getting quality rest, try these seven natural sleep aids for insomnia and how to create the perfect environment for sleep.
What is GABA?
GABA is a neurotransmitter naturally found in the brain and even in some foods like tomatoes and soybeans. It’s an inhibitory neurotransmitter that blocks chemical signals in the central nervous system and reduces brain activity. GABA can help promote calmness in the body and helps regulate nerve cell hyperactivity when feeling fearful, anxious or stressed.
It’s sold without a prescription as a dietary supplement, but GABA’s effects may also benefit those who struggle to fall asleep.
The science behind GABA for sleep
Taken alone or with other natural sleep aids, GABA supplements help address anxiety, stress and an overactive brain, three main offenders that make it difficult to fall asleep. Its calming effect puts the mind in a relaxed state, so you’re in the right headspace to drift off to sleep.
Low GABA levels have actually been linked to sleep deprivation, as one study found participants with insomnia had 30% lower levels of GABA in their systems. Another small-scale study by Frontiers in Neuroscience involving middle-aged adults found that taking 300 mg of GABA before bed for at least a week can reduce sleep latency (the amount of time it takes to fall asleep).
There’s no solid research showing GABA helps sleep efficiency (quality of sleep and slow wave sleep), but the study’s results showed it may promote sleepiness as it affects early sleep stages. Another benefit is that it won’t leave you feeling drowsy the following morning like other over-the-counter medications such as ZzzQuil or prescription sleep medications.
6 tips for taking GABA for sleep
1. GABA can be taken as a supplement or powder in your food.
2. Take GABA 30 to 60 minutes before bed for best results (as shown by studies).
3. Follow the dosage instructions and track the amount and how often you take GABA.
4. Use a sleep journal to document your sleep quality so you can identify patterns, possible side effects and the efficiency of GABA.
5. GABA is naturally found in fermented foods like kimchi, sourdough, sake and mulberry beer.
6. Always talk to your doctor before taking GABA or any new supplements.
Other benefits of GABA
While research is still limited, more data supporting GABA as a stress and anxiety reliever continues to emerge. Although, relieving anxiety and stress before bed isn’t to be taken lightly, as it can significantly impact sleep latency and overall sleep quality.
Side effects of taking GABA
According to the Sleep Foundation, there are no serious side effects when taking GABA in small doses from sleep or dietary supplements. However, some consumers have reported feeling abdominal pain or headaches. High levels of GABA in the brain is linked to daytime drowsiness, and a small number of people report drowsiness after taking GABA.
As you should with any new supplement, consult your doctor before taking GABA. Especially when taken in combination with other medications or prescriptions.
People at a higher risk of having a negative reaction to GABA include:
Pregnant women
Individuals under 18 years old
People who take prescriptions for high blood pressure
People who take anti-seizure medications
The information contained in this article is for educational and informational purposes only and is not intended as health or medical advice. Always consult a physician or other qualified health provider regarding any questions you may have about a medical condition or health objectives.
