Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Magnesium helps me sleep (Potassium may help even more)

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After 20 days of taking a bath in Epsom Salts (MgSO4), I definitely went into deeper sleep than I have.  This has been one of the more clear...
Sunday, August 28, 2011

Quick Blood Pressure Update - magnesium and more vitamin D

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I ran out of prescription so I am going to go awhile before refilling it and see what happens. Relevant items include going from 4000IU of...

Back to the Drawing Board on sleep experiments

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Upon the collection of further data, I have basically made no progress on improving my sleep.  In fact, in general, I am worse than I was du...
Sunday, August 21, 2011

Sleep updates - Sleep Mask/Earplugs = good, caffeine = bad

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So wearing a sleep mask and earplugs definitely reduces the number of times I wake up (3.6 to 2.5) and the amount of time awake (17.4 to 12....

Even more Vitamin C does not equal even more Blood Pressure Reduction

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After increasing Vitamin C to 1000mg , There was no further reduction in blood pressure. I have gone back to 500mg of Vitamin C.
Monday, August 15, 2011

Vitamin C seems like it lowers Blood Pressure

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After 8 days of control data and 8 days of taking Vitamin C...it appears to have lowered my blood pressure about 5 points.  112/75 to 107/70...
Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Orange Glasses don't work....but Sleep Mask might

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There is no connection between the amount of deep sleep I get and the Orange Goggles (37.4 vs 37.7 min) The theory that I need to wind down ...