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When I was working long hours at an startup. My sleep cycle got disturbed. Here is what works for me: 1. Reduce room temperature to 25*C. Go to bed at 10:30pm 2. Automatically shutdown the airconditioner at 4:30am. 3. Jump out of bed at 5am without any alarm clock. This habit continues in the month when no airconditioner is needed.
What time should you take melatonin if you don't have any major sleep problems but want to improve sleep quality?
Roughly 30 minutes before I hit the pillow works for me. I use the normal melatonin (non-chews), but I suck on them till they dissolve in my mouth, because I hate when they get stuck in my epiglottis; you get used to the bitter flavor after a bit. I'm going to assume this is safe because chewables exist.
Melatonin is usually not (freely) sold in Europe while it can be easily bought in the US like vitamin pills or cod liver oil. Is there a recommendable online option with international delivery? (I don't consider the usual 'online pharmacies' recommendable. Even when buying Melatonin in a store in the US, there's still the issue that Melatonin manufacturers and sellers mostly control themselves …)
Melatonin has also shown to help with certain cancers especially breast. Ref: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5412427/
From the article: >The consensus stresses that melatonin is a very weak hypnotic. The Buscemi meta-analysis cites this as their reason for declaring negative results despite a statistically significant effect – the supplement only made people get to sleep about ten minutes faster. “Ten minutes” sounds pretty pathetic, but we need to think of this in context. Even the strongest sleep medications, like Ambien, only sho…
Melatonin has genuinely changed my life in regards to sleep. I'd tried everything and for exams went on Zopiclone, and then found the gold that is Melatonin. Thoroughly recommend anyone with suitable problems sleeping giving it a go. (I was DSPD, though every so often did the whole "Non-24-Hour-Sleep Disorder" thing)
How much do you take? I was regularly taking 3mg and 1.5mg regularly for most of the past 4 years. I recently tried 0.3mg (as recommended in another recent HN discussion about melatonin, I think it was a week or 2 ago), and I had terrible results. On 1.5mg and 3mg, I would have very unsettling and memorable dreams, as well as wake up very tired, but I would get at least 7 hours of sleep on most nights. With 0.3mg, I…
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10,000 IU is the upper limit recommended by researchers, but afaik 4,000 is the more commonly accepted/advised number.
Wasn't there a recent study suggesting that the recommended daily value was off by a factor of ~10? I think an important thing to consider is that if your going to take large amounts of vitamin D, you should also be getting enough magnesium to prevent unhealthy calcification. In the winter, I've taken one time doses of ~40,000 IU every few weeks or so, (always in the morning of course). I remember reading that 40,000…
You should be taking vitamin K as well.
Magnesium is very important. Magnesium deficient rats were shown to have decreased melatonin. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/17172005/ It's also protective against hypercalcemia, so if you're taking vitamin D, make sure you're getting enough magnesium. I've even read that magnesium alone can mitigate the symptoms of vitamin D deficiency.
Magnesium is important, many people are deficient, supplementation is cheap and supplementation is very unlikely to cause harm (as long as you keep it to max 300 mg of elemental Mg (e.g. 2g of magnesium citrate) a day). Like with vitamin D, you should have very good reasons not to chose to take a magnesium supplement.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
10,000 IU is the upper limit recommended by researchers, but afaik 4,000 is the more commonly accepted/advised number.
Wasn't there a recent study suggesting that the recommended daily value was off by a factor of ~10? I think an important thing to consider is that if your going to take large amounts of vitamin D, you should also be getting enough magnesium to prevent unhealthy calcification. In the winter, I've taken one time doses of ~40,000 IU every few weeks or so, (always in the morning of course). I remember reading that 40,000…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Magnesium is important, many people are deficient, supplementation is cheap and supplementation is very unlikely to cause harm (as long as you keep it to max 300 mg of elemental Mg (e.g. 2g of magnesium citrate) a day). Like with vitamin D, you should have very good reasons not to chose to take a magnesium supplement.
Is magnesium dissolved in water bioavailable? There are some sparkling mineral waters with Mg ions and it would be nice to be able to just sip on those