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You got drowsy in grad school each afternoon, but now you're no longer drowsy and you take Vitamin D. Are you also no longer in grad school?
by carbocation 16y ago
You got drowsy in grad school each afternoon, but now you're no longer drowsy and you take Vitamin D. Are you also no longer in grad school?
- robg 16y agoIt carried over for years after grad school even as I regularly got 7-8 hours of sleep. Quite literally, it was gone within one day of supplements (5,000 IU) and it has never come back. For me there couldn't be a stronger personal causation. One day it was there and for years, the next it was gone.
- carbocation 16y agoThanks for the follow-up. From your original post the timeline wasn't clear to me, but this helps clear it up.
- robg 16y agoSorry, I usually don't post comments because of how much context is lost. Part of the problem was trying to isolate the cause. I was in grad school for five years. In year two I started to notice the problem but I thought it was simply stress related. The solution was the futon in the office. I'd take an afternoon nap and then I was mostly good to go. During my post-doc I was less stressed but the problem remained. Only after my three year post-doc, a family member nutritionist literally looked at my eyes and said I was Vitamin D deficient. Sure enough, the results came back and I was badly deficient. 1.5 years of supplements later and I never take a afternoon nap.