I've been taking 1mg of Melatonin most nights for the past couple of years to help regulate sleep. I started on 4mg, which worked, but discussion on LW suggested this was an unnecessarily high dose. I have noticed what may be a dose-response relationship, (4mg hits me harder than 1mg, but 1mg is sufficient) but can't rigorously substantiate this relationship.
I've recently (last couple of weeks) started 200mg of potassium supplements (potassium gluconate) on a daily basis. The bottle suggests taking them with food, so I do. My diet is probably not very potassium-rich, so I figured I'd see if they gave me superpowers. I have been feeling consistently more like-myself-on-a-good-day for the past couple of weeks, but in the absence of potassium supplements I would have attributed this to the turn of the season.
If I've been eating particularly badly or feeling off-kilter, I'll take generic multivitamins with food, but I don't do this regularly.
Not a supplement as such, but I experimented with nicotine mints in 2012/2013. I'm not consciously aware enough of my internal states to feel any effect they may have had, and they tasted pretty grim, so I stopped.
When do you take melatonin, and when do you sleep?
Since it turns out that it isn't feasible to include check as many as apply questions in the big survey, I'm asking about supplements here. I've got a bunch of questions, and I don't mind at all if you just answer some of them.
What supplements do you take? At what dosages? Are there other considerations, like with/without food or time of day?
Are there supplements you've stopped using?
How did you decide to take the supplements you're using? How do you decide whether to continue taking them?
Do you have preferred suppliers? How did you choose them?