Comment · Thu, January 23, 2020
Anyone else getting insomnia from sleep support?
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Greyone · 7 points
For the first week, Sleep Support was giving me the best sleep of my life. At the peak of the benefits, I was hitting 3:30+ of deep sleep and waking up feeling incredible. Now that's all changed. It still causes drowsiness, and I almost doze off but it feels like my brain is "stuck" on. I've tried adding plenty of magnesium, 300mcg of melatonin, 400mg of phosphatidylserine, and 4mg copper (to offset zinc) but nothing works. The only way I'm able to "turn off" the weird head sensation is with a dose of ZZZquil.
Is it the Zinc that has somehow started causing too much stimulation? I'm hoping to soon try supplementing with the individual components one by one but need to wait until I have the extra funds. It was pretty devastating to start experiencing this since the initial week was so pleasant. Nothing else was added or removed from my stack at this time, and I'm taking very little else at the moment.
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Chargers95 · 1 points
Are you gonna add this version of sleep support? I was really hopeful for it but I've found that 2g of taurine is more effective, and I actually sleep better without sleep support even when I'm dead tired.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb
If we take the zinc out, it's going to be a change to the base formula. No reason having two formulations, with zinc being the only difference. If we take it out of the formula, people can still take our standalone Microzinc if they want that.
Zinc does help sleep, though. It's just that perhaps some people need to take it in the AM, and just maintain their levels over time, rather than getting a big jolt of it at night. This is why the Sleep Support was the one that took us the longest, and resulted in the most formulation changes. It's HARD to make a sleep supplement that helps everyone. This was formula 6. If we take the zinc out, that will be 7.