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Melatonin is not recommended for sleep. A better combo to take would be 200mg L-theanine and 500mg Magnesium Threonate. Melatonin can disrupt your natural melat
by kaczordon 5y ago
Melatonin is not recommended for sleep. A better combo to take would be 200mg L-theanine and 500mg Magnesium Threonate. Melatonin can disrupt your natural melatonin production and those supplements are also notoriously inaccurate in terms of dosage some containing anywhere from 0.2x to 2x the amount listed. Melatonin is probably acting more as a placebo for you now.
- mekoka 5y agoMelatonin also works in low dose. You don't need the popular 3mg pills. After nearly 20 years as a night owl and struggling to retrain myself to sleep at night, I finally managed when I followed the advice from this article https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/10/melatonin-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/10/melatonin-much-more-th.... Every night I'd take between 0.1mg and 0.3mg. It worked flawlessly for 3 weeks. I didn't experience any sort of adaptation. After 3 weeks I tried to stop. Although I could sleep well without it by then, I noticed that my night sleep was still too sensitive and prone to interruption, at the slightest disruption. I ended up taking it for 6 months. It never failed. I eventually managed a proper sleep without it and completely became a night sleeper.
- cm2012 5y agoI'm sure it doesn't work for everyone but we blind tested it for my wife. Nights with no melatonin, but an identical pill, meant no sleep.