• BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world
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      21 days ago

      Don’t rely on melatonin pills because then your body stops making its own. Look at magnesium and zinc. Do that with a multivitamin (whose magnesium oxide and zinc oxide are hard to absorb) and you got everything.

      • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org
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        21 days ago

        I do have all of those in my cabinet, but wasn’t aware they would help with falling/staying asleep. Def agree about not becoming dependent on melatonin supplements; I try not to over-do it, but sometimes when I have important stuff to do first thing in the morning, I don’t want risk being a zombie from poor/no sleep.

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        21 days ago

        Hmmm.

        I got the magnesium supplement, but I didn’t know about zinc oxide and I didn’t know they were hard to absorb.

        I better look up what foods those guys are in, make it a little snack before bed instead