Any supplements that help with falling asleep?

Nutrition Q&A [Moderated]
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I’ve been taking glycine recently and it seems to be OK. Do lavender chamomile sprays help at all? Melatonin?

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None of those supplements reliably help with reducing sleep onset or quality significantly. Sorry dude!

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Glycine is good stuff. Melatonin rocks but I think makers often bullshit about the dose . I also like l-tryptophan (about 5 grams mixed with big scoop of whey protein before bed). Ashwagandha is interesting but again their is a huge range of quality and evidence from analysis showed the trusted extract (ksm-66) to be bs. Gabapentin is a good drug if you opt for a prescription .

I think it’s also important to ask if sleep labs would just shut down if it was found that they were useless for accessing sleep. I say no, they wouldn’t. They would just use some math to baffle people with bs and then charge more.

The university system is very corrupt.

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None of this stuff has good evidence showing it improves sleep quality, quantity, or other metric. 10/10 would not recommend.

Gapabentin is sometimes used off-label for treating insomnia, but it is not without its own risks. F

Finally, sleep labs are useful for objectively measuring (and sometimes managing) parasomnias.

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Just to reiterate … gabapentin is most definitely not a “good drug”.

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I’ve been experimenting with different sleep aids too. Glycine has been decent for me too. I haven’t tried lavender chamomile sprays, but they sound calming! And melatonin works for some, but not everyone. Weird, right? One thing I stumbled upon recently is Delta 9 THC hemp gummy candy. Surprisingly, it’s been a game-changer for my sleep routine. I take it about an hour before bedtime, and it helps me unwind.

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I’ve been experimenting with different sleep aids too. Glycine has been decent for me too. I haven’t tried lavender chamomile sprays, but they sound calming! And melatonin works for some, but not everyone. Weird, right? One thing I stumbled upon recently is Delta 9 THC hemp gummy candy. Surprisingly, it’s been a game-changer for my sleep routine. I take it about an hour before bedtime, and it helps me unwind.

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I’ve been experimenting with different sleep aids too. Glycine has been decent for me too. I haven’t tried lavender chamomile sprays, but they sound calming! And melatonin works for some, but not everyone. Weird, right? One thing I stumbled upon recently is Delta 9 THC hemp gummy candy. Surprisingly, it’s been a game-changer for my sleep routine. I take it about an hour before bedtime, and it helps me unwind.