Melatonin, a sleep aid, is a surprising treatment for food waste

Re:Melatonin, a sleep aid, is a surprising treatment for foo... by Arrath on Friday August 04, 2023 @03:42PM (#37004872)

I wouldn't be surprised, they were plain OTC 10mg pills but as I read in an article posted fairly recently on HN I learned that the required dose is often much, much smaller than that. My foray with melatonin was a few years ago and I'm not having trouble sleeping now so I haven't dipped my toes into it again.

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Re:Melatonin, a sleep aid, is a surprising treatment for foo... by Zetice on Friday August 04, 2023 @03:46PM (#37004926)

Just to confirm, my limited understanding is that 10mg is an incredibly high dosage.

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Re:Melatonin, a sleep aid, is a surprising treatment for foo... by neteresy on Friday August 04, 2023 @03:56PM (#37005043)

Wait until you read this: "Oral administration of 1,000 mg a day of melatonin to five adults for 25 to 30 days resulted in drowsiness being noted as an adverse effect. There were no severe and/or irreversible impacts on clinical parameters (blood pressure, heart rate, ECG, serum chemistry, urine analysis) in these people." Source: Nordlund JJ, Lerner AB. The effects of oral melatonin on skin color and on the release of pituitary hormones. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 1977

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Re:Melatonin, a sleep aid, is a surprising treatment for foo... by Arrath on Friday August 04, 2023 @03:49PM (#37004958)

As is mine, now. Back in the wild days of 2016 or so advice online said "just go get some melatonin and you'll sleep!" and the bottle said to take 1 or 2 an hour before you want to sleep, so off I went.

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