Dr. Michael Grandner

So that's so it's basically like jet lagging yourself where you're you're telling your body it's nighttime before it's actually nighttime.

That's not you're really telling that you're telling it it's evening before it's actually evening, like right around dinner or like usually two to three hours before your typical bedtime is when you start producing melatonin.

You give it a couple hours before that.

It's in the zone where you're looking for it.

Like give it in the middle of the day, your body's not looking for it.

It's in the zone where your body's looking for it.

And you can confuse the system and think it's later than it really is.

That also means you'll wake up a little earlier because the whole thing got shifted.

Same thing as if you take that low dose melatonin as soon as you wake up in the morning, that drop...

gets delayed a little bit.

So it ends.

So that ball lands a little further along than it expected to.

So your day started a little bit later than it thought it was going to.

So you'll stay up a little bit later the next night.

So you can use that half dose, half milligram dose as a clock shifting dose.

So then why is everything over the counter like five and 10?

Well,

A, people think more is more and sometimes more is less, especially with melatonin.

If it's just a nighttime signal, more isn't more.

Five, you can take closer to bedtime.