Glycine isn't just a sleep supplement
That's the most common misconception
Taken in the morning it supports insulin response, mental clarity, and collagen — without making you drowsy
Let me remind you that glycine is a non essential amino acid that also:
• acts as a substrate for gluthatione synthesis (with cysteine and glutamate)
• Supports collagen synthesis
• Stimulates gut hormone release
• Influences metabolic and inflammatory pathways
Taking it morning and daytime is therefore physiologically rational when the goal is metabolic and cognitive rather than purely for sleep facilitation
The sleep promoting effects are timing and dose dependent
Ranking supplements: THIAMINE (B1)
Incredible tier.
- destroys fatigue (lifted it in people whose B1 was already normal)
- improves energy production
- pro-motivation (raised voluntary movement through dopamine)
- anti-migraine (shorter, fewer, less severe, less disabling)
- pro-endurance (same session had lower lactate and felt easier)
- pro-digestion (low stomach acid and constipation are the early signs of low B1)
- the more you eat the more you need
- the more seed oils you eat, the more B1 you need to counteract
Many forms of B1 exist. I like HCL mixed into juice throughout the day, and 100mg TTFD on days where I need maximum output.
Take the quiz in the reply to find out your metabolism.
YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS
Stop thinking. Start being. You’re not your thoughts. Control your mind. Control your life. Meditate daily. Be still. Create your thoughts. Allow only positivity into your life. Filter negative assumptions. Be careful what you listen to on a daily basis. Music is magic. Frequencies are everything. Tune in to your desired reality.
Most people think that they had an idea, but what they don’t know is that, in reality - the idea had them.
What you have now is the result of the thoughts you allowed to influence your life on a daily basis, up to this day.
Don’t give space to ideas that serve a pessimistic purpose in your life.
You choose whether you want to live a life full of beauty and opportunities
or a life where everything is gray and hopeless.
Everything around you is created by you.
Always has been. Always will be.
more fiber isnt always the fix for your gut.
pile rough fiber onto an already irritated gut and you often get more bloating, gas and fermentation, not healing.
sometimes the answer is a steamy broth, ripe fruit and rest. not another scoop of psyllium.
a calm gut beats a high fiber one.
3g of glycine before bed:
→ Improved subjective sleep quality and sleep efficacy
→ Decreased time to fall asleep
→ Reduced time to reach deep sleep
→ Lessened daytime sleepiness and fatigue
→ Improved performance of memory recognition tasks
→ Increased liveliness and peppiness the next day
→ Increased clear-headedness the next day
"The present polysomnographic results from subjects who had been continuously experiencing unsatisfactory sleep demonstrated that ingestion of 3 g of glycine before bedtime significantly shortened the latency to sleep onset and latency to SWS emergence without changes in the sleep architecture. These objective polysomnographic data correlated with the subjectively observed improved sleep qualities such as satisfaction with sleep, a shortened latency to falling asleep, and sleep efficacy.
Traditional hypnotic drugs such as benzodiazepines enhance the Y-aminobutylic acid-A receptor and increase stage 2 sleep but alter the sleep architecture by reducing relative lengths of SWS and REM sleep. 10,11 The induction of daytime sleepiness and reduction of daytime cognitive function by benzodiazepines'2-14 would be consequences of such alteration of the sleep architecture. However, the proportions of each sleep stage of subjects in this study were unchanged, showing that glycine does not modify the sleep architecture itself. Their hypnograms traced a typical stable nocturnal sleep cycle, from deeper to shallower sleep with very few sleep interruptions. Furthermore, this study suggested reduction of daytime sleepiness and showed significant improvement of cognitive function following glycine ingestion.”
Some people are sensitive to glycine and have paradoxical responses; L-theanine may help with this.
Ref: Glycine ingestion improves subjective sleep quality in human volunteers, correlating with polysomnographic changes https://t.co/WBNnI9Die0