I've been unable to get enough sleep. Woke up after 4-5 hours then having difficulty to sleep again even though I'm still sleepy. 3g taurine helps a bit but it's still not enough. Then I found some articles that said vitamin d need to be in 60-80 ng/ml for optimal sleep. My current level is 45 ng/ml. I know that there are a lot of different opinions on optimal vitamin d levels. Any opinions?
https://www.ncbi.nlm...pubmed/22583560
https://bodyecology....nd-broken-sleep
I like your user name. And thanks for the good articles with references, these seem to support your idea that you may want to boost D 45ng/ml levels up a little to help with better sleep:
Gominak, S. C., & Stumpf, W. E. (2012). The world epidemic of sleep disorders is linked to vitamin D deficiency. Medical hypotheses, 79(2), 132-135.
McCarty, D. E., Chesson Jr, A. L., Jain, S. K., & Marino, A. A. (2013). The link between vitamin D metabolism and sleep medicine. Sleep medicine reviews.
I guess you test D levels consistently?
Sideshow: I wonder if taking D pills during the day rather than night makes any difference? The sun shines in the day, and doesn't at night. Does it matter for circadian rhythm? I'd think so...
Sounds pretty far fetched to me. Why supplement taurine and not glycine? Search "glycine sleep" on the forum.
I mix about 10g or so of USP grade l-glycine in chamomile tea before sleep, and it works the sleepy well for me. I like L-Glycine -- it's inexpensive, the body seems to need it, it seems to "work" in that small incremental way that's not really anti aging as much as it seems generally healthy.
No luck (for me) with taurine and sleep issues.
Coffee too late in the day messes with my sleep, worry keeps me up, my mind babbling on and on, shut up already, so meditation and calm measured focused breathing helps me. The sleep hygiene lit works, too -- so keep my room very dark, cool at night, clean sheets, keep the cat off my head, I like a white noise machine because I want no awareness of the copulating and fighting and drunk neighbors that exist high and low, left and right all around me, we're crammed in together, separated by broken code walls (I live in a sky pod surrounded by the many human messes all around me, and that includes living with myself)...
Meanwhile, boost your D levels to 60-80 ng/ml for optimal sleep; but also realize more "science" will come along to change this to more fucked up confusion, which may interrupt sleep due to worry, etcetera on and on...