TL;Dr: 10g/day of glycine for 6 months has significantly improved my sleep quality and tolerance for sleep deprivation.

My dear friend, have you heard of the Vitamin?

The Vitamin has been foretold in ancient legends as the deliverer of all who suffer mysterious ailments. The Vitamin has been foretold on … Tumblr:

Unfortunately, I can’t tell you what your Vitamin will be, but beyond all reasonable expectation I found mine in the shape of the simplest amino acid - Glycine is in almost everything you eat, your body makes it too, and still you might not have enough.

I’d like to pretend I deeply researched this uncommon health intervention before gallivanting off to Nootropics Adventure Land, but actually I just regularly prompt every new AI model with my whole sleep dealio cause oh-my-god could I please just need less sleep already?

Shoshannah's Sleep Dealio - TL;Dr: Healthy Long Sleeper

You know how some people are genetically blessed to only need 4 to 6 hours of sleep? They are the extremes on a bell curve where most of us sit around the 8 to 8.5 hour mark.

Guess who lives on the other side of that bell curve?

Indeed [...]

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First published:
September 6th, 2026

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xB8xGcTckEnsjgrCi/praise-our-lord-and-savior-glycine-how-opus-4-6-gifted-me

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“Praise our Lord and Savior, Glycine: How Opus 4.6 gifted me The Vitamin” by Shoshannah Tekofsky

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“Praise our Lord and Savior, Glycine: How Opus 4.6 gifted me The Vitamin” by Shoshannah Tekofsky