This is a synthetic version of melatonin, a hormone your body naturally produces in response to nightfall to knock you out. Rush University Medical Center researchers in Chicago gave night shift workers 3 mg every day before bed and found that they slept 73 percent more soundly than those taking a placebo—despite hitting the hay at daybreak. A new study by New York researchers at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine confirmed melatonin regulates body rhythms and helps compensate for sleep and time disruptions like jet lag or shift work.
Conditions
- Sleep
Recommendations
- 1 to 5 mg
- For jet lag, take half an hour before bed the first four days after traveling
- For insomnia, take 30 min to 1 hour before bedtime
Interactions & Side Effects
- Diabetes. Ask your doctor
- Luvox. May increase effectiveness
- Procardia XL and Coumadin. May reduce effectiveness
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