Mary
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I've posted several times about my sleep cocktail of nutrients, most of which add or enhance GABA. They include niacin or niacinamide, inositol, l-theanine, Theanine Serene, l-glycine, 5-htp and melatonin. If anyone wants more info on how I take these, let me know.
However, I recently had an unpleasant experience with glutamine. It's an amino I take in conjunction with BCAAs, which helps reduce PEM. Recently I increased my dose of both of these and ended up with insane insomnia, and none of my GABA supps above would do anything for it. I figured the extra glutamine, which I had never reacted to before, had converted to glutamate and that was causing the problem so I stopped it. However, the BCAAs and extra glutamine had increased my energy noticeably so I badly wanted to get back on the glutamine.
I don't have MCS but am sensitive to MSG, which causes severe insomnia for me, so I figured this sensitivity to MSG might be a form of MCS. Anyways, in researching what to do about MCS, I came across this:
http://www.doctoryourself.com/mcs.html which talks about using high dose vitamin C for MCS.
Then I remembered I had recently stopped taking vitamin C (it's a long story), but I had been taking a fairly good dose for a long time until 5 weeks or so. So I added back in 9000 mg of vitamin C (in divided doses) and slept way better than I have for awhile. I realized my sleep had been getting worse for awhile too. So I've been taking my vitamin C now for 3 days and have slept well (with all my other sleep supplements).
Then this morning I found this article about vitamin C being a neuroprotector against glutamate-induced neurodegeneration - bingo! https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25701025
I never would have connected vitamin C with sleep. I plan to increase the glutamine again tomorrow (hopefully will sleep okay tonight) and will see what happens.
However, I recently had an unpleasant experience with glutamine. It's an amino I take in conjunction with BCAAs, which helps reduce PEM. Recently I increased my dose of both of these and ended up with insane insomnia, and none of my GABA supps above would do anything for it. I figured the extra glutamine, which I had never reacted to before, had converted to glutamate and that was causing the problem so I stopped it. However, the BCAAs and extra glutamine had increased my energy noticeably so I badly wanted to get back on the glutamine.
I don't have MCS but am sensitive to MSG, which causes severe insomnia for me, so I figured this sensitivity to MSG might be a form of MCS. Anyways, in researching what to do about MCS, I came across this:
http://www.doctoryourself.com/mcs.html which talks about using high dose vitamin C for MCS.
Then I remembered I had recently stopped taking vitamin C (it's a long story), but I had been taking a fairly good dose for a long time until 5 weeks or so. So I added back in 9000 mg of vitamin C (in divided doses) and slept way better than I have for awhile. I realized my sleep had been getting worse for awhile too. So I've been taking my vitamin C now for 3 days and have slept well (with all my other sleep supplements).
Then this morning I found this article about vitamin C being a neuroprotector against glutamate-induced neurodegeneration - bingo! https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25701025
I never would have connected vitamin C with sleep. I plan to increase the glutamine again tomorrow (hopefully will sleep okay tonight) and will see what happens.