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game designer, writer, cook, gamer, biohacker, nutrition and health aficionado, lover of film, music and sports. this morning something strange happened. i could barely get out of bed after sleeping more than 8 hours. recently, i have been building up a consistent sleeping routine, where i will be in bed ten to fifte*n minutes to midnight. sometime after midnight, i’ll fall asleep and the next morning, i wake up around 8am without really needing an alarm clock. in combination with taking 3mg of melatonin daily before bed and avoiding bright blue light after sunset, this consistent sleeping routine has helped me to fall asleep in the last couple of weeks, i noticed that whenever something disrupted that routine, i would have a harder time to fall asleep. and by ‘harder’, i mean significantly harder. up to the point where i would be lying down in bed for two or three hours, increasingly becoming more and more stressed out and worried that i could not fall asleep. i worry because, quite frankly, if i sleep poorly, i will i don’t only feel unwell, but my brain functions inadequate and my performance is off. to avoid these sleepless nights, i started looking for another tool to add to my arsenal. > gaba is the ‘downer’ neurotransmitter that counters glutamate > (upper), as the two mediate brain activation in a ying:yang manner. > highly important in the brain, oral ingestion of gaba is complex due > to its difficulty in crossing the blood brain barrier. > gaba is the most potent depressive neuroamine in human brains. it > regulates many of the depressive and sedative actions in brain > due to these regulation factors, gaba as a supplement does not exert > many depressive effects on its own. the human body is too adept at > regulation, and orally ingested gaba cannot alter human physiology > to much of a degree. > gaba, however, is a target for many other compounds that can act > vicariously (in a multitude of ways) to increase gaba levels, which