Fall often means a change in routine, a busier schedule, and a return to certain habits and behaviors. For some, this may bring relief or excitement; for others, it may ignite stress or anxiety. Regardless of how you’re feeling, you can support your health and well-being in a variety of positive ways.
There are, of course, no-cost ways things you can do — move your body, practice deep breathing, or wind down before bedtime, for instance. But a new wellness tool can sometimes make a routine or habit easier or more exciting to stick with.
These are a few of the products we’re looking to try this fall. Each offers unique benefits to health and well-being, specifically supporting rest and opportunities for resetting your mind, body, and sleep.
Relax Your Mind
For many people, stress is never in short supply, but it can become more pronounced as our schedules fill up. All the more reason to embrace stress-relief efforts and resources.
1. Bed of Nails Bon Eco Mat and Pillow Bundle
This mat and pillow bundle brings a form of acupuncture into your home — or wherever you go. Designed to support relaxation, relieve back pain, muscle tension and stress relief, and encourage deep sleep, the acupressure meditation bed can be laid on the floor or your bed for a restful experience. Or, use it while you’re sitting at your desk and multitask with wellness. Bonvie, the maker of the mat, says it can activate the parasympathetic (a.k.a. rest-and-digest) nervous system after 10 to 20 minutes of use.
Shop the Bed of Nails Bon Eco Mat and Pillow Bundle ($194).
2. LTH Magnesium
Magnesium is known for its ability to help you relax, among its long list of other benefits. Magnesium helps regulate stress hormones, including cortisol. It can also help you wind down by stimulating GABA, a calming neurotransmitter, and by pre-empting things that might prevent you from unwinding — think migraines, menstrual cramping, and muscle contractions.
Shop LTH Magnesium ($14.29).
Boost Your Body
Many people view fall as the ideal time to go all-in on a new fitness routine. These products can support your efforts.
3. Bala Bangles
Add a little more resistance and weight to your walk or other movement activities with Bala Bangles, which you can wear on your wrists or ankles. They come in 1-pound, 2-pound, or 3-pound options and can be worn during yoga session, core training, aerobic conditioning, or any other fitness activity of choice to add more challenge to your movement.
Shop Bala Bangles ($55).
4. Oceanfoam Foam Roller
The Oceanfoam foam rollers can be used to support your body’s recovery pre- or post-exercise or whenever you’re feeling stiffness, soreness, knots, or painful trigger points. Foam rolling can increase circulation, which means more oxygen and water make it to your muscles. The results? Improved range of motion, decreased soreness, and better results from your workouts.
Oceanfoam foam rollers are made from high-quality, eco-friendly materials including algae and recycled materials.
Shop Oceanfoam ($58 for Oceanfoam Tidal Roller; $28 for Oceanfoam Ripple Roller).
5. LTH Collagen Peptides
Collagen can be thought of as scaffolding for most of the tissues in our body: It helps to keep our organs in place and connects muscle to bone and bone to bone in our bodies. It also builds the cartilage that allows your bones to slide over one another without causing pain in your joints.
At about age 20, the amount of collagen in the body begins to naturally decline. Exercise and overuse can also contribute to further collagen breakdown. Supplementing with collagen can provide the amounts needed to support the health of your joints, skin, and gut, as well as help your body recover and repair from the wear and tear of tough workouts.
Shop LTH Collagen Peptides ($54.99).
6. Obshay
Our experts encourage everyone to include strength training in their fitness routines because of its many, many benefits to the mind and the body — and that may mean squeezing it whenever you have time and wherever it’s convenient.
Disguised as sleek and stylish decorations for your home, Obshay weights can live in the rooms where you spend the most time, making it easy to pick them up when you have a few minutes and incorporate more micro movements into your days. Keep one in your office so you can do a few single-arm biceps curls between meetings, display them in your TV room and grab them during commercial breaks for your favorite show — the options are endless.
Shop the Obshay Sculpture Weight (Single) ($75 for 4 lbs. weights or $95 for 7 lbs. weights) and the Obshay Sculpture Weights (Set of Two) ($145 for two 4 lbs. weights, $160 for 4 lbs. and 7 lbs. weights, or $180 for two 7 lbs. weights).
Support Your Slumber
Between fewer hours of sunlight and the change with daylight savings time, it’s helpful to prioritize healthy sleeping patterns for your body.
7. Cozy Earth Bamboo Sheets
Sleep plays a major role in health, affecting our mood, stress, weight, immunity, recovery, and other aspects of how we feel and function every day. Make your bed a place you can’t wait to get into for the recommended seven to eight hours of shuteye with set of high-quality sheets. The Cozy Earth Bamboo Sheets are made with 100 percent premium viscose bamboo fabric and are breathable and uniquely soft.
Shop the Cozy Earth Bamboo Sheets ($288).
8. LTH Relax
The alpha wave is the brain wave state we need to get into for deep and REM sleep, explains Paul Kriegler, RD, CPT, director of nutritional product development at Life Time, in this Experience Life article. He notes that it can be a challenge to get into, especially if our minds are busy, but that there are certain nutrients and botanical extracts that can help promote this essential brain state.
The LTH Relax supplement contains the combination of these nutrients and botanical extracts, including valerian root, passionflower, chamomile, lemon balm, vitamin B6, 5-Hydroxytryptophan, L-theanine, and gamma-aminobutyric acid.
Shop LTH Relax ($32.99).
9. Eight Sleep Pod 4 and Eight Sleep Pod 4 Ultra
Deep sleep is a stage that supports the growth and repair of your body and brain — and it’s also the time when you lose the ability to regulate your body temperature. This is one of the reasons why it’s often recommended to keep your bedroom cool.
You can take that one step further by regulating the temperature of your bed. The Eight Sleep Pod 4 Ultra features three components: the cover, the hub, and the base. The cover is a high-tech layer that wraps around your mattress, similar to a fitted sheet. Health-grade sensors track your heart rate and breathing rate while you sleep and automatically regulate the heating and cooling aspects based on your body temperature to promote better sleep.
The base automatically adjusts your bed’s elevation to reduce snoring. The hub is the central system of the Pod, holding the water that circulates in the cover and provides the cooling and heating effects.
Shop the Eight Sleep Pod 4 ($2,349) and Eight Sleep Pod 4 Ultra ($3,699).
10. LTH Melatonin Spray
Do you have trouble falling — or staying — asleep? Melatonin is the principal hormone involved in regulating our sleep-wake cycles, and decreased melatonin production or release in the evening can lead to poor sleep onset and/or poor quality sleep.
Supplementing with melatonin in the evening can be helpful in reestablishing healthy sleep patterns. The Life Time Melatonin Spray is a convenient way to get a quick dose of the nutrient at the end of the day.
Shop LTH Melatonin Spray ($21.99).
11. Charlotte’s Web Gummies
Charlotte’s Web offers three different types of gummies to support your sleep, depending on the type of assistance you need.
• CBD Gummies: Sleep. Made with melatonin and 10 mg of CBD formulated from full-spectrum hemp extract, these raspberry-flavored gummies are intended to help support sound sleep and regular sleeping cycles.
• CBN Gummies: Stay Asleep. These huckleberry-flavored gummies contain 20 mg of CBN (a cannabinoid that is distinct from CBD) and are formulated to support uninterrupted rest.
• CBD Gummies: Calm. Containing lemon balm and 10 mg of CBD, these lemon lime-flavored gummies are intended to support sense of calm and relaxation.
Shop the Charlotte’s Web CBD Gummies: Sleep ($29.99 to $44.99), Charlotte’s Web CBN Gummies: Stay Asleep ($9.99 to $44.99), and Charlotte’s Web CBD Gummies: Calm ($29.99 to $44.99).
Explore the entire collection here.
