Your experiences with Melatonin

[PatJ]

Do you take melatonin every night or is there some alternation?

I usually take it every night. If I don't then it takes longer to get to sleep, and I wake later in the night and can't get back to sleep (this also happens if I don't take the long acting form of melatonin.)

 

[HowToEscape?]

• “Powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, and the body’s the most efficient free-radical scavenger.“

This sets of my BS detector. If your body stopped oxidizing, you would die within minutes.
You oxidize food into energy, the immune system oxidizes undesirable things into inert molecules, etc. An excess of antioxidants via supplements Is good for the supplement peddler, bad for you.

 

[crat]

I'd like to hear from those of you who have spent some time using melatonin, did it work? did it continue to work? any side effects? what kind of dosage? and anything in general that might be useful to know about melatonin?

yeah

This post is a bit old - but I just posted something about a study that might suggest melatonin is far more useful as antioxidant than sleep aid for some people (including myself). https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/20/3/765/htm