I wanted to share something that is helping me sleep. For the last 2-3 years my sleep has been non-refreshing, fractured and generally not the pleasant experience I used to look forward to.

Over the years my experimentation with just about everything non Rx I have found a few things that have helped.

The latest thing is..... Selenium . But here's the catch, I have to take it [color:"red"] just before bed [/color] . I take about 70 mcg at bedtime and it has been helping wonderfully for over a week now. I've been adding other things that help and am ready to post.

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70 mcg Selenium (the most important for me), 1.5 mg melatonin (helps sleep deeper, works much better with the selenium), 500 mg GABA (sometimes helps sometimes doesn't), 250-750mg L-Glutamate (this is a big one for me but too much reduces cortisol so if I thing my adrenals are tapped I leave it off), 100 mg Magnesium Glycinate (good for sleep and NMDA blocking). [/color]


Last night I added 100 mg of Acetyl-L-Carnitine in hopes of blocking NO and Lactic Acid production which I think it helped.

I did take 1 Jarrow Tox-Guard (Pectasol) in the morning and that has helped somewhat also.

My sleep last night was about as normal as I've had in a long time.

I did find another combination about a year ago that had me pretty excited.[color:"red"] It was about 500 mg Lysine, 1 regular aspirin, 1g Methyl-B12 and L-Glutamine. The B12 and Aspirin were to reduce NO and L-Glutamine to increase GAGA and the Lysine which is an inverse agonist at the NMDA receptor if the Glutamine increases Glutamate. This helped quite a bit but lowered cortisol quite a and I could only take for a few days in a row.[/color]

Other things: Flexeril helped a ton when taken every 4 days, more often I reached a tolerance. Klonopin helped also but wasn't worth the side effects. I would only recommend in times of severe stress.

I would be interested to hear what has helped mercury poisoned folks.