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Melatonin is naturally produced by your body and is very safe. However, I treat these as I would any other sleeping pill in that I only take them as needed (i.e., shifts in sleep schedule, jetlag, insomnia, etc.).
Dosage affects everyone differently, so I recommend cutting the gummy in half (starting with ~1mg) and adjusting as needed. Short term side effects are grogginess or a slight hangover feeling. Try and get as close to 8 hours of sleep when taking to reduce side effects. I would avoid taking if getting less than 6 hours of sleep as I might feel worse than if I was just tired.
I would be very cautious about putting a child on these without a doctor's input.
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Melatonin is naturally produced by your body and is very safe. However, I treat these as I would any other sleeping pill in that I only take them as needed (i.e., shifts in sleep schedule, jetlag, insomnia, etc.).
Dosage affects everyone differently, so I recommend cutting the gummy in half (starting with ~1mg) and adjusting as needed. Short term side effects are grogginess or a slight hangover feeling. Try and get as close to 8 hours of sleep when taking to reduce side effects. I would avoid taking if getting less than 6 hours of sleep as I might feel worse than if I was just tired.
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Melatonin is naturally produced by your body and is very safe. However, I treat these as I would any other sleeping pill in that I only take them as needed (i.e., shifts in sleep schedule, jetlag, insomnia, etc.).
Dosage affects everyone differently, so I recommend cutting the gummy in half (starting with ~1mg) and adjusting as needed. Short term side effects are grogginess or a slight hangover feeling. Try and get as close to 8 hours of sleep when taking to reduce side effects. I would avoid taking if getting less than 6 hours of sleep as I might feel worse than if I was just tired.
I would be very cautious about putting a child on these without a doctor's input.
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tl;dr: generally considered very safe, appropriate for use in low dosages to correct sleep patterns, should not be used as a daily supplement
Melatonin is a natural hormone produced in small amounts by your pineal gland (gland towards the center of your brain) in response to light to regulate your circadian rhythm, and encourage you to adopt a sleep rhythm in accordance with day/night cycles. The specific neurological pathways involved there thankfully aren't necessary to know just for the sake of supplements.
Your body naturally produces under 1mg per night (varying on age and other circumstances), and is usually pretty good about that. If for some reason there's a disruption with your circadian rhythm, melatonin supplements could help with that, and like they said, it has a good track record for safety (as opposed to something like common OTC cold/fever medications which can be extremely dangerous in excessive quantities). However, the studies we've conducted on melatonin supplementation to originally establish its efficacy are generally at dosages similar to what our bodies naturally produce (less than 1mg), and often supplements are massively in excess of that (up to 10mg or even higher in some cases); and even then, the average improvement seen in those studies was statistically significant, but not necessarily clinically significant (as in, it does help, but maybe not as much as we'd like to believe it does).
Melatonin has developed something of a cultural definition as a safe, natural, healthy sleep remedy that will fix every sleep problem and just guarantees sleep, which isn't really accurate. Anything that's labelled as "natural" tends to be immediately considered "safe, healthy, and can do no harm" in our culture (USA), which is also misleading. That cultural association tends to preclude the thought of any caution or discretion in usage of melatonin supplements; to make matters worse, supplement manufacturers tend to sell melatonin in huge bottles that are oriented towards daily use, and at increasingly high labelled dosages as a means of selling their product as the "strongest" or "most effective". But supplements are functionally non-regulated, and the actual dosages in melatonin supplements can vary wildly from what's labelled on the package (containing anywhere from one fifth as much to five times as much melatonin as it claims to - how's that for a margin of error?).
The medical community generally seems to recognize melatonin as mostly safe, but they also tend to recommend that it be used appropriately - that is, as a means of helping correct a sleep schedule, and not as a magic sleep pill, and also not as a nightly sleep adjunct to be used indefinitely. I have personally found melatonin to be occasionally helpful for me (working night shift and having to swap my sleeping schedule around frequently), but more often than not it's just disappointed me in terms of efficacy. If you have chronic sleep issues, melatonin is likely not the solution you are looking for; if you are temporarily re-adjusting your sleep schedule or something similar, it may help, but it's at best a gamble. I would personally avoid taking it chronically or in dosages greatly exceeding the range that it tends to occur naturally in people.
Some further reading/sources:
https://slate.com/technology/2022...ption.ht
https://jcsm.aasm.org/doi/10.5664/jcsm.6462
https://www.healthline.
Also, it is a waste of money, but everyone wants the easy way out even if it doesn't work.
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