Random offering.

[kitchen_kink]

Hey folks,

I have a full bottle (a little under 100 tablets) of Source Naturals Melatonin. They're peppermint-flavored sublinguals. I cannot take the stuff because it actually keeps me awake and makes me jittery as hell.

Would anyone like it?

Comments

[ladytabitha.livejournal.com]

Ooo, yes.

[harkavy.livejournal.com]

the same thing happened to me when I tried St John's Wart

[motive-nuance.livejournal.com]

So the thing about melatonin is that it's a good sleep aid -- at a dosage of 0.1 mg. Source Naturals Sublingual Melatonin has 25 times the recommended dosage, which causes downregulation of melatonin receptors. Unlike chemicals like 5HTP, (or, gods forbid, ethanol) which interact indirectly with sleep-related neural pathways, melatonin hits about as close to the center of neurological sleep-related processes as is currently known to be chemically possible. The receptors downregulate really fast (within 1-3 doses), so 2.5 mg doses of melatonin are just about the best way to cause short term (2-7 day) insomnia. (without any related alertness/'upper' benefits like with caffeine, MPH, modafinil...) This sort of very-low-level neurologically induced insomnia is pretty effective at negating many of the positive effects of what sleep you do get, and have been implicated in short-term cognitive deficits, though there's no firm scientific evidence on them because it's generally considered to be unethical to dose human experimental subjects with such insane amounts of melatonin. But there is inconclusive evidence of long-term cognitive deficits in monkeys that got irregularly overdosed with melatonin on a regular basis for a long time.

Those pills are poisonous -- throw them away.

[(Anonymous)]

I use it at 3-5 mg and it helps my sleep significantly. There are numerous studies that show the positive benefits of melatonin for sleep and for cancer, particularly as one gets older. Every supplement has some controversy surrounding it, but the preponderence of evidence I have read about melatonin is positive. Of course, if it doesn't work for you or causes insomnia, I would definitely not take it, or as suggested, take a lower dose.

Timur

[cycon.livejournal.com]

No, thank you. ;)