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Sleep stack

Peter Attia's night stack from The Drive #276 (23 Oct 2023): ashwagandha 600 mg (Solgar), glycine 2 g (Thorne) and Magtein magnesium L-threonate. He reported sauna 4–6 nights a week before bed in AMA #42 and described using Eight Sleep for his sleep time and score in #276.

Reported practice

Date of record:: 23 Oct 2023

Interventions

Supplements

AshwagandhaSolgar
600 mg · nightly · night stack
night stack (sleep)
Details & sources
Recently switched to Solgar; had taken it earlier and restarted in the year before Oct 2023. Merged from the daily-supplements duplicate on 2026-09-02. The Drive
Sources1
GlycineThorne
2 g · nightly · night stack
night stack (sleep)
Details & sources
Merged from the daily-supplements duplicate on 2026-09-02. The Drive
Sources1
Magnesium L-threonateMagtein
nightly · night stack
sleep, and part of his ~1 g elemental magnesium target
Details & sources
Milligrams not stated; counted inside the ~1 g elemental magnesium item in the daily-supplements protocol. The Drive
Sources1

Recovery

Sauna before bed
4–6 nights per week · before bed
improving sleep; he said the impact on his sleep was "insane"
Details & sources
From the free preview of AMA
Sources2

Device

Eight Sleep
Details & sources
Attia described checking Eight Sleep for sleep duration and its score. He is also a Scientific Advisory Board member and The Drive has had an Eight Sleep sponsorship; those conflicts should remain visible.
Sources1

Sources

Original accounts behind this protocol. Numbers match the references in each intervention.

01The Drive #276: Peter answers questions on longevity, supplements, protein, fasting, apoB, statins, and more Ashwagandha · Glycine · Magnesium L-threonate · Eight Sleep
02AMA #42: Optimizing sleep Sauna before bed

Supplements and Eight Sleep use are from