Case study: Melatonin

gwern

I discuss melatonin's effects on sleep & its safety; I segue into the general benefits of sleep and the severely disrupted sleep of the modern Western world, the cost of melatonin use and the benefit (eg. enforcing regular bedtimes), followed by a basic cost-benefit analysis of melatonin concluding that the net profit is large enough to be worth giving it a try barring unusual conditions or very pessimistic safety estimates.

Full essay: http://www.gwern.net/Melatonin

I discuss melatonin's effects on sleep & its safety; I segue into the general benefits of sleep and the severely disrupted sleep of the modern Western world, the cost of melatonin use and the benefit (eg. enforcing regular bedtimes), followed by a basic cost-benefit analysis of melatonin concluding that the net profit is large enough to be worth giving it a try barring unusual conditions or very pessimistic safety estimates.

Full essay: http://www.gwern.net/Melatonin

I'm going to get some melatonin as soon as possible.

I've been taking 1.5 mg of melatonin every night for the past two weeks (except for last night). It's hard to say exactly what effect it had, because it's confounded with another major change in my sleep habits. It seemed to me that it moved my energy levels towards "a little bit sluggish" relative to what I counterfactually expected had I not taken the melatonin. So if I had a good night's sleep, I seemed less energetic than I ought, and if I had very little sleep, I seemed more alert than I ought.

On Sunday night (Jan 17) , I got 5 hours of slee... (read more)

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I tried to get some just know. But it turns out in the UK you can only get melatonin on prescription.

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