Som Sleep · Vendor Partner · Nutrition Locker

About the brand

Who Som Sleep is.

Som Sleep is the Los Angeles company that does one thing: sleep. Not a do-everything wellness line, one nightly formula, built and refined until pro teams told them to leave it alone.

Founded in 2017 by Abdul Khan, Christine Khan and others, Som Sleep started as a fix for the founders’ own sleep problems: the nights they couldn’t fall asleep, and the nights they woke up and couldn’t get back down. Nothing they tried felt right, so they built their own. When they shared it with professional athletes and the people closest to them, the feedback came back the same every time: keep it as-is. They did.

The formula is the Som Stack™: magnesium (citrate), vitamin B6, L-theanine, GABA, and a deliberately modest 3mg of melatonin. It addresses sleep from three angles at once, relaxation, falling asleep, and staying asleep, rather than leaning on a single ingredient or a melatonin megadose. It ships as a zero-sugar, 10-calorie stick-pack drink mix: tear, mix with water, drink 30 minutes before bed.

Today that same formula is in nightly rotation with more than 100 pro teams across the NBA, NFL, and MLB, and Som’s advisory board reads like a training-room roster: Jordan Mazur, the 49ers’ NFL Sports Dietitian; Brandon McDaniel, MLB strength coach with the Dodgers; and Nike's former Director of Performance, Dr. Keith D'Amelio, among others. The certification floor is NSF Certified for Sport, which is why tested-league athletes can use it.

Why we stock them

Earned the spot.

The recovery conversation usually stops at protein and hydration. The biggest recovery lever an athlete has is the one most sports-nutrition catalogs ignore: sleep. And the sleep aisle is a compliance minefield, melatonin megadoses, diphenhydramine, and products no one has tested. Som Sleep is the rare sleep product an RD can actually put in front of a tested-league athlete.

The Som Stack™

A complete sleep stack, drug-free, and certified for the athletes who can’t fail a test.

Most sleep aids solve one part of the problem or solve it with a sledgehammer. The Som Stack™ works on three fronts at once: magnesium, B6, L-theanine, and GABA to relax the body and quiet the mind, and a targeted 3mg of melatonin to signal sleep without the groggy, hungover morning that big-dose melatonin leaves behind.

For a dietitian, the value is that it is NSF Certified for Sport, drug-free, and non-habit forming. That is a sleep tool you can recommend for nightly use and hand to a tested-league athlete without a banned-substance worry.

Why Sports RDs reach for it.

NSF Certified for Sport. The one certification that matters most for a sleep product going to tested-league athletes. NBA, NHL, MLB, and CFL clubs are permitted to provide and recommend products Certified for Sport. That removes the reason most RDs won’t touch the sleep category.
A stack, not a melatonin bomb. A targeted 3mg of melatonin alongside magnesium, B6, L-theanine, and GABA, rather than the 5-10mg megadoses that leave athletes foggy the next morning. The dose is deliberate and disclosed.
Drug-free and non-habit forming. No diphenhydramine, no doxylamine, none of the drug-based sedatives an RD has to warn athletes away from. Built to be a safe part of a nightly routine.
No next-day grogginess. Sleep that protects the quality of the next morning’s training instead of blunting it. The whole point of a recovery tool is that it doesn’t cost you the next session.
Sleep is the recovery multiplier. Adaptation, hormonal recovery, and tissue repair happen overnight. A dietitian who has optimized fueling and hydration and left sleep on the table has left the biggest lever unpulled. Som gives them something to actually prescribe.
Clean label, fits any plan. Zero sugar, 10 calories, vegan, non-GMO, gluten-free, dairy-free, preservative-free, no artificial flavors. It slots into any macro target and any dietary restriction on a roster.
A stick pack that travels. Tear, add water, done. It packs flat for road trips and time-zone nights, and it gives athletes a bedtime ritual to replace the nightcap, the late snack, or the doom-scroll.

Where We Stand

Som Sleep is NSF Certified for Sport, drug-free, and non-habit forming, which clears the bar the rest of the sleep category can’t. What earns it a place in the Locker is the category itself: sleep is the recovery window most sports-nutrition shelves skip, and Som is a credible, certified, pro-team-tested way for a Sports RD to finally put a tool against it. Backed by team dietitians and strength coaches and used by 100+ NBA, NFL, and MLB clubs, it is overnight recovery an RD can stand behind. That’s why Som is in the Locker.

Products in the Locker

What you can shop.

The Locker carries the Berry flavor, which is NSF Certified for Sport.

Som Sleep Berry sleep drink mix, 50-pack

Berry Sleep Mix — 50-Pack

Nightly Recovery · Stick-Pack Drink Mix

NSF Certified for SportSom Stack™Drug-FreeZero Sugar

Form: Single-serve stick-pack drink mix · Prep: Mix with water, drink 30 minutes before bed · Profile: Magnesium, B6, L-theanine, GABA, 3mg melatonin · 10 calories

The berry flavor of Som’s nightly sleep mix. The full Som Stack™ in a zero-sugar stick pack, built to help an athlete wind down, fall asleep, and stay asleep without next-morning grogginess.

Best for: Nightly overnight recovery · in-season sleep routine · travel and time-zone nights · athletes who prefer berry.

Som focuses on one thing, so the lineup is deliberately simple. One powerful Berry flavor, each in a single-serve 50-pack created specifically for professional teams. The Locker carries the Berry NSF Certified for Sport flavor. The team packs go through an additional layer of QA for each order.

From the field

Quotes from the pros who use it.

"Nothing is more important or integral for health and recovery than optimal sleep. And Som Sleep can help you achieve that."

Jordan Mazur, MS, RDNFL Sports Dietitian · San Francisco 49ers · Som Sleep Advisory Board

"With Som, athletes are getting to the root of their energy deficiencies by charging up the ultimate fueling system, their sleep."

Brandon McDaniel, MS, RSSCMLB Strength Coach · Los Angeles Dodgers · Som Sleep Advisory Board

"Som Sleep is innovative, smart, non habit forming, and a ‘must use’ for anyone – athlete or otherwise – experiencing sleep difficulties."

Dr. Philip GogliaPerformance Nutritionist · Som Sleep Advisory Board

Som Sleep — the recovery that starts when training stops.