L-theanine

“I take pine pollen and L-theanine. So to close it off, what I said is I'd love to chat with you guys on a deeper level and see if you'd be able to help me increase my free test.”

“Those people would do well to avoid certain supplements. So, in a moment, I'll talk about the value of a supplement called theanine for falling asleep. But theanine, which typically is taken in dosages anywhere from 100 milligrams to 400 milligrams, theanine can be great for many people,”

“of their intense dreams, would do well to avoid theanine supplementation. Now, for those of you that are not waking up in the middle of the night or not having excessively vivid dreams, but are having trouble falling asleep, two supplements in particular have been shown to be effective for shortening the transition time to sleep and allowing people to ease into sleep more readily.”

“threonate, I'm going to take apigenin, I'm going to take theanine. If my dreams are too vivid and I'm waking up in the middle of the night from excessively vivid dreams, I'll drop the theanine. And many people actually derive great benefit from that approach.”

“pretty quickly. I also take a supplement that my partner Serena makes, and it's got L-theanine and some other stuff that also I know from my own experiments gets me into deep sleep quickly.”

“is also gonna typically be a little bit better for maybe where that cortisol cycle is. I mean, I take a sleep formula with, ashwagandha, L-theanine, tryptophan. And other than if I have to urinate at night, I do not wake up.”

“you're gonna wake up in the morning groggy. Right. And nobody likes that. So I agree. I think apigenin, which is found in chamomile tea, magnolia bark, to your point, tryptophan, theanine, these are really amazing. These are great herbs or herbal compounds that calm the body, but also they're not gonna give you that drowsy feeling the next day.”

“with theanine and some other calming herbs to calm that down, but also getting them into yoga and Qigong and various kinds of meditation, progressive relaxation.”

“in which case, don't take it. Now, in a slightly different way, many people who can tolerate magnesium threonate, or really thrive on magnesium threonate, and like apigenin, might find that theanine, even at the lowest dose of 100 milligrams,”

“or they find that the sleep that they're getting is kind of anxiety ridden because of the intensity of those dreams. So some people might choose to leave theanine out of the sleep stack and just take magnesium threonate or apigenin, and again, some people might leave magnesium threonate out of the sleep stack. All of this is really about finding the supplementation protocol that's ideal for you.”

“Multiple studies show that combining roughly 100 to 200 milligrams of L-theanine with about 100 to 150 milligrams of caffeine, approximately the amount in a standard cup of coffee, significantly improves cognitive performance”