28 Sep 05
Originally posted by KneverKnightWhere do you live.
Update on the hunters: It's not hunters!
Propane powered cannons and motion detectors to scare the deer away. Great, now we get to not sleep in a war zone all night.
I think my insomnia is due to a lack of excercise coupled with a guilty conscience for being such a slacker ...😳
It sounds awful.
I used to live on a street where there was a market during the day, so they could only do roadworks at night.
It's great to have a pneumatic drill going outside your bedroom at 3.30 am
28 Sep 05
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Originally posted by KneverKnightKnever, here is the real deal:
The farmers don't want critters eating up their crops I guess.
There is a harmone called meletonin. It regulates sleep among other
things, harmones are usually multipurpose. This harmone was touted
as helping sleep in older people because when you get older the
amount of meletonin generated in the body goes down. Now as
a theory it it true. The problem was the quacks who tartgeted a
marketing segement forgot one fact that took about ten years to
tease out: The body cannot use more than about 300 MICROGRAMS
of the stuff. If you take too much it kind of gums up the works and
while it might work for one or two nights, a large dose kills any
benefit you get from taking melatonin. So the quack health food
industry jumped on it ten years ago and goes, well if half a milligram
is good, sell it in 3 milligram, 5 milligram doses. That will get their
attention. Sure. Like if drinking one glass of milk is good for you,
surely drinking ten in a row must be ten times better, get the drift?
So the health nut industry did a total dis-service to people by
totally overdosing the population who bought into this farce.
When you only need 300 micrograms and your body only produces
say, 20 micrograms, then if you take say 250 micrograms you are
right on schedule and will in fact have a decent sleep. One of the
benefits of meletonin is when you wake up in the middle of the night,
say to take a pee, you usually turn on lights. Light hitting your eye
in the middle of the night resets your internal clocks and starts the
process of waking you up if you don't have the proper amount of
melatonin in your body. With the right amount of melatonin, this
clock reset thing is much weaker and you can get back to sleep
in spite of bright lights for a few minutes.
I read the results of the latest research at MIT about this subject
and decided to drag out my old bottle of melatonin which I had tried
years before which did nothing to help me sleep, it was 3 milligrams
per pill (3000 MICROGRAMS, ten times the beneficial dose)
So I began chopping up the tablets into small pieces and took that
dose, a rough way to do it but it really helped. If I take the proper
amount, I get a good sleep and if my wife wakes up and turns on
the light for some reason and wakes me up, I get pretty much right
back to sleep after the disturbance, something that would never have
happened before. I see occasionally melatonin in 0.3 Milligram
dose levels for sale now but 99 percent of it is still in the 1 to 5 mg
area, far too much. So look for a dose per pill around 250 or 300
microgram (0.25 to 0.30 milligram dose levels) and try it. You
may be pleasently suprised. Good Luck, Don.
28 Sep 05
Originally posted by sonhouseOK thanks. I'd heard about that hormone before, forgotten it.
Knever, here is the real deal:
There is a harmone called meletonin. It regulates sleep among other
things, harmones are usually multipurpose. This harmone was touted
as helping sleep in older people because when you get older the
amount of meletonin generated in the body goes down. Now as
a theory it it true. The problem was the quacks who tartgeted a ...[text shortened]... .25 to 0.30 milligram dose levels) and try it. You
may be pleasently suprised. Good Luck, Don.
I'll try staying out of Spirituality before bedtime, it's spooky in there ...
I live way out in the country where you think it would be quiet BUT now we have the pre-dawn cannonade of the irate farmers as well as the Air Force using my house as an aiming point or whatever, roosters, howling coyotes, braying jackasses, frogs galore and etc., might as well be in a city or dig a deeper hole to sleep in.