A long long time ago, towards the end of 2024, me and two friends ran a self-experiment on the impact of glycine on sleep quality. Life has been busy, but time has finally come to publish the results. Science is hard continues to be the motto of this endeavor, the...
This is a linkpost from my blog and also my first submission on LessWrong. Please be generous with your feedback! I will post the results of our study once the analysis is done and written up. To avoid cliff-hangers: From what I've seen so far, there doesn't seem to be...
A long long time ago, towards the end of 2024, me and two friends ran a self-experiment on the impact of glycine on sleep quality. Life has been busy, but time has finally come to publish the results. Science is hard continues to be the motto of this endeavor, the long and short of it is that we weren’t able to measure any effect.
I feel quite cautious about publishing biometric data, but if there is some cool science you want to do to it, email me and maybe we can figure something out.
The full experimental setup is described here. TLDR: three of us were on the same schedule... (read 680 more words →)
(1) Wow I never though of that. That would have saved us a lot of pain! (2) I'm a bit nervous about recording my biometric data if it's not entirely offline, but I think the people I'm doing this with are likely to try this.
Thanks for the tips!
I don't remember where I've read this so it's not very high confidence.
The idea is that glycine lowers core body temperature, and that body temperature needs to drop a bit in the course of falling asleep
This is a linkpost from my blog and also my first submission on LessWrong. Please be generous with your feedback! I will post the results of our study once the analysis is done and written up. To avoid cliff-hangers: From what I've seen so far, there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of ... effect.
In November 2024, me and two friends decided to run a self-experiment to see if taking glycine regularly would impact our sleep. Running the study required us to solve a few interesting practical challenges. This post describes how we came up with the study design and the issues we ran into. I'm writing this on the last... (read 3134 more words →)
