Melatonin stimulates your bodies vitamin D creation, which makes you tired when it gets dark. It’s not a magical bullet to solve insomnia, but it helps sleep regulation for people who don’t get enough sunlight. You still need some sunlight though, just less.
Melatonin actually has a scientific basis. It’s a naturally produced hormone that will have an effect on most people, but being a hormone, ymmv. Homeopathy is pure quackery from top to bottom
Caffeine works. Melatonin has never done anything for me; maybe I’m immune, but I’ve put it in the same mental basket as homeopathy.
Melatonin stimulates your bodies vitamin D creation, which makes you tired when it gets dark. It’s not a magical bullet to solve insomnia, but it helps sleep regulation for people who don’t get enough sunlight. You still need some sunlight though, just less.
So if you take vitamin D (e.g. D3) would that be better than taking melatonin?
sunlight is created by the dark Lord to sell more Vitamin d
Melatonin actually has a scientific basis. It’s a naturally produced hormone that will have an effect on most people, but being a hormone, ymmv. Homeopathy is pure quackery from top to bottom
That’s if the supplement actually contains what it says it does. Supplements are unregulated in the us
Can melatonin even cross the blood brain barrier? Caffeine definitely can…
Could try and ask your doctor about cyproheptadine. Keeps me out cold
Let my parents both try it and they slept 8 solid hours.
It’s also classed as an antihistamine for what that’s worth.