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Hi,
When I take enough methylfolate to feel normal (clear-headed, energized, good mood, etc.) during the day, it always gives me trouble sleeping. The standard solution would be to take some niacin at bedtime—but even when I take as much as 500+ mg, enough to get a nice flush (indicating that I’m no longer overmethylated) and an initial sense of relaxation, that energizing methylfolate feeling (which I cherish in daytime) sort of kicks in again after a little while and keeps running all night like a freight train.
I take my methylfolate in the morning and sometimes at lunchtime, 15–22.5 mg/day (a lower dose makes me slip into undermethylation). Cutting down on daytime MF is not an option since I need that high a dose to be functional.
Any hacks to slow this nighttime methylation freight train, provided that niacin doesn’t quite do the job?
When I take enough methylfolate to feel normal (clear-headed, energized, good mood, etc.) during the day, it always gives me trouble sleeping. The standard solution would be to take some niacin at bedtime—but even when I take as much as 500+ mg, enough to get a nice flush (indicating that I’m no longer overmethylated) and an initial sense of relaxation, that energizing methylfolate feeling (which I cherish in daytime) sort of kicks in again after a little while and keeps running all night like a freight train.
I take my methylfolate in the morning and sometimes at lunchtime, 15–22.5 mg/day (a lower dose makes me slip into undermethylation). Cutting down on daytime MF is not an option since I need that high a dose to be functional.
Any hacks to slow this nighttime methylation freight train, provided that niacin doesn’t quite do the job?