Melatonin for Sleep

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.

Is melatonin not enough for it?

Anyone know if melatonin helps?

Did you ever try regular melatonin?

I'm betting on a placebo effect of the melatonin. taken in pill form it is only effective for a few hours.

If you havent tried melatonin, give it a shot; but critically, use a low dose, like 3mg sublingually. In my experience, people often take too much and have counterintuative results.

Melatonin supplements have helped me numerous times to get to sleep after tossing and turning in my bed. It is something that I've taken as needed and as a nightly supplement. The biggest drawback to melatonin supplements is that you can sometimes wake up slightly groggy the next morning. The stuff is dirt cheap and commonly available. If you haven't tried it, this could be the sleeper supplement your missing.

Is this process helped by taking melatonin?

Semi related, I had occasional trouble sleeping at the designated time (I would sleep an appropriate amount, but but not when I wanted to.) After reading gwern’s page on melatonin I tried it since it is easy and low risk, and now I can fall asleep consistently when I want to, by taking melatonin X minutes before.https://www.gwern.net/Melatonin

Have you been able to reduce your ADHD meds after taking melatonin (or getting better sleep from melatonin)?