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Vitamin D
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The reason for doing this experiment was to try and replicate the natural release of melatonin by the pineal gland as daylight fades to night. What I found from this test is that my sleep was very significantly improved to more like when I was in my 30's! I even stopped the magnesium and zinc for this experiment to make sure that it was the melatonin that was causing this very significantly improved sleep. It was the staggered intake of melatonin that is causing this effect. The reason that I am certain of this is because on the nights that I have forgotten to stagger my dose and end up taking the total melatonin dose within two hours of bedtime, the extra improved sleep effect is lost.
Some of you may be thinking, but I only take 3 or 5 mg of melatonin before bed, how do I break that up into smaller doses each hour? Melatonin is available in 1/2 mg and 1 mg so this should make it possible.
https://www.vitacost.com/vitacost-melatonin-1-mg-300-capsules
I hope this is as helpful to others as it has been for me!
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Vitamin D
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Since the study for this combination of supplements was fairly long, I imagine that many EC readers did not have time to read the whole study, so I thought I would highlight an important point shown in this study as well as other studies and meta analyses. In most of these studies it was clearly shown that there is an inverse relationship between vitamin D serum level (25 OH d) and sleep issues or to say that a little differently, as the vitamin D level declines, sleep issues increase and as 25 OH d serum level rises, sleep issues decline.
Overall, this is just one of many reasons to make sure your 25 OH d serum level is replete!
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