Melatonin use is on the rise.
since the pandemic started, and new research has found a growing number of adults are turning to supplemental melatonin to help them conk out at night., analyzed data from 1999 to 2018 and found that melatonin use increased even before the pandemic began. For the study, researchers analyzed data from 55,021 adults from 1999 to 2000 and 2017 to 2018 cycles of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey . The researchers found that overall use of melatonin supplements increased from 0.
“The hormone is for the timing of sleep,” says Christopher Winter, M.D., of Charlottesville Neurology and Sleep Medicine and author of. “It’s not a sedative, though. It’s not meant to knock someone out.” But while supplemental melatonin should work the same was as the melatonin your body makes in theory, using melatonin supplementation can be “complicated,” Dr. Winter says. “When you buy melatonin, nobody really knows what they’re taking,” he explains. “has found that some lots have no melatonin in it, and some have two to three times the amount that it says in the bottle.”
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