Comment · Fri, May 20, 2016 · Ceretropic & Nootropics Depot
Started taking KSM66, waking up every day at 6 AM regardless of when I go to bed.
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particularindividual · 1 points
I've been taking it for 2 weeks and it's best supplement for stress I've ever taken, along with powdered magnesium. But it doesn't matter if I go to bed at 10 PM or 1 AM, I still get up within 5 minutes of 6 AM every single day. Previously I would get up anywhere between 6 AM and 8 AM.
Has anyone else had a similar effect? Does anyone have an idea of what could be happening here?
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TheSmileyCactus · 1 points
I have the exact thing happen, but it is usually 2 or 3 am. It absolutely kills my ability to sleep more than 8 hours as well. It is pretty strange, and I should probably stop taking it, but it is one of my favorite supplements.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · Ceretropic & Nootropics Depot
You really should not sleep more than 8 hours anyway. 6-8 hours is a healthy amount, unless you are a child or elderly.
EDIT: Since some people feel my comment was worthy of a downvote, do some extra research:
Sleep Duration and All-Cause Mortality: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Prospective Studies
In terms of prevention, consistently sleeping 6 to 8 h per night may therefore be optimal for health. However, sleeping 9 h or more per night may represent a useful diagnostic tool for detecting subclinical or undiagnosed co-morbidity. People reporting consistently sleeping 5 hours or less per night should be regarded as a higher risk group for all-cause mortality. A 12% increased risk of death in short sleepers, if causally related, would equate to over 6.3 million attributable deaths in the UK in people over 16 years of age and over 25 million attributable deaths in the US in people over the age of 20 years.
Duration of sleep should be regarded as an additional behavioral risk factor or risk marker heavily determined by the environment and possibly amenable to modification through both education and counselling as well as through measures of public health. The latter would aim at favorable modifications of physical and working environments to allow sufficient sleep and avoid habitual and sustained sleep deprivation.