Dr. Michael Grandner

That's a little more of a sleep-promoting dose where it's more of like a, hey, body, you idiot, if you didn't know it was nighttime already, I'm going to scream it in all capital letters for you and get your act together.

And it'll boost whatever natural sleep drive you have

that isn't interfered with by insomnia, it may boost it.

So people who take that three to five milligrams with it, you know, closer to bedtime, it can have that sleep promoting effect, not because the melatonin was sedating, was it sort of got, was that strong enough signal to kick you into gear a little bit?

Now, a lot of times people will feel groggy in the morning with it.

That's because you just couldn't metabolize it fast enough.

That you gave yourself such a big dose, you already were naturally producing it anyway.

So you overfilled your bucket.

And so by the morning, you still have melatonin floating around.

backfiring.

So now you're telling your body it's nighttime when it's daytime because you couldn't get rid of the nighttime signal fast enough.

And it had built up over time.

So often when I say, if you're taking melatonin at night and it's helping you, but you're feeling groggy during the day, cut your dose in half.

So that's the thing where...

There's a lot of them out there that can be unreliable, especially from some of the manufacturers that don't have the good quality control.

It is regulated by the FDA.

It's just, you know, there's just not enough money for enforcement.

So there's not a ton of enforcement.

But any of the larger companies...

They're actually going to have pretty good quality control.