I hear contradictory things about melatonin, but I think possibly it could be "cycled" - I don't know how many days to do it on and off though. I saw some recent research it can be used for some other conditions like I think migraines and cancer prevention
I've also heard some people speak in support of sleeping on bedding on the floor, or if off the ground as being something like that. example article: https://www.healthline.com/health/sleeping-on-the-floor
exercise during the day might help sleep at night, like some good lifting
taking some time to relax and gently ease in to sleep before sleeping, like an hour of doing nothing or little, can seem helpful too
I understand you have a different religious view although I am curious what is so offensive about this one, it's a house blessing tradition
do you object to observing the 12 days of Christmas? Or rather the Epiphany? Epiphany traditions are pretty old:
https://infogalactic.com/info/Epiphany_(holiday)
> The earliest reference to Epiphany as a Christian feast was in A.D. 361, by Ammianus Marcellinus
The protestant / fundamentalist / evangelical / etc. rejection of certain traditions feels hard for me to follow as Catholics and orthodox and some protestants share a history and agreement of observing them to some degree
yeah it's interesting to think about some of these things. let's assume drugs actually make productivity decrease. however, some people may "believe" they are helpful, which would create a placebo effect of making them more productive. Hence they could end up making them more productive but simply because they've believed it in to existence. They could just take a sugar pill and have a similar experience. That's another interesting ethical question, of using placebos as "drugs". Just like when people end up being "drunk" off of non-alcoholic beer - sometimes the mind creates certain physical realities based on expectations and belief.
the mountainflow company was on shark tank, I think it's an underdeveloped niche still being formed
personally I'd be ok with something that doesn't have as good of performance but is ecofriendly. I don't need the fastest wax that will destroy the environment and give me cancer, I can take something that glides "ok enough".
so far I haven't really found anything you could buy, but this quora post had ideas like I mentioned in the op: https://www.quora.com/Is-there-any-household-item-I-could-use-instead-of-snowboard-wax
it's a gamble, I see some of the logic of it. I might be somewhat of a passive supporter. I think actively doing bad things to make things worse to push a collapse is probably immoral.