Pleasing Progress

Even closer to normal adult sleep

Two weeks ago in Achievement Unlocked: Normal Adult Sleep I had the first glimmers of a potential return to 9-5 hours. This happened because the AI enabled health diary app I started working on in early July said “Maybe you have MCAS”, and I followed that hint.

There are three medical professionals I follow on YouTube. Physiotherapist Will Harlow and metabolic health expert Leonid Kim are the ones I watch the most, but I do occasionally delve into Brad Stanfield’s work. This video, in which I learned glycine is a potent sleep aid, has been a game changer.

I had been taking a gram of glycine three times daily as part of my overall amino acid supplements, which had been selected for gut health support.

This was my sleep for the week ending August 17th. Keep in mind Garmin’s sleep detection algorithm will not catch restless sleep. The missing days are also around four hours and the second chart shows my average for the last twelve months is 4:49.

Then I moved that three grams of glycine to a single bedtime dose. Having had that hint, I also reviewed the other things in my supplement drawer. I stopped taking L-theanine with my morning caffeine, moving it to bedtime for the sake of sleep induction. Morning magnesium also got moved to bedtime.

And after a week of this, I’m getting 142% of the sleep I had been and it’s mostly happening in the desired 2200 - 0800 range that will let me fit in with the other Bay Area adults.

I have Garmin sleep records for the last eighteen months. Here are the times I managed to sleep seven or more hours three days in a row. The first two are a mystery, the last one is a response to a Pfizer COVID19 booster. Overall I averaged seven hours of sleep just three days a month.

Were it not for that Wednesday stumble this would be the longest consecutive period of seven hours of sleep in about a decade(!)

Conclusion:

A couple days ago I posted Parabeagle Document Indexing, which is about my first Model Context Protocol application. I am going to clean up my health diary app, get it packaged in Desktop Extension format, and then I’m going to start shopping it as the basis for an AI health advisor service. There’s an insane amount of money sloshing around the Bay Area and while a FOSS/freemium service isn’t terribly exciting, it is something that 1) has a revenue model 2) that involves consumers, not corporations, and 3) it will survive the AI bubble bursting.

So this is it, this is me when I’m healthy. Working two investigations to pay for September, joined a startup that’s in stealth mode, waiting to see if the Europe stuff pans out, and perhaps launching another startup based on my personal health misadventures.

Ohh it’s good to be back …