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Comment author: John_D 29 July 2014 04:48:30PM 0 points [-]

Some other ways to optimize sleep:

Metformin helps improve sleep, and a theorized mechanism is through improved glucose metabolism. This might also explain why exercise, which has a similar effect on glucose metabolism, improves sleep as well, and why deteriorating health worsens it.
Some blood pressure lowering drugs worsen sleep, but the possible mechanism is through melatonin suppression.

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