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Analysis Summary
Worth Noting
Positive elements
- This video provides specific, actionable information regarding the correct dosage of melatonin (0.5mg-3mg) and highlights legitimate drug interactions with SSRIs and blood pressure medication.
Be Aware
Cautionary elements
- The use of hyperbolic comparisons to sex hormones and the dismissal of broad pediatric practices to establish the guest as the sole reliable source of truth.
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Transcript
A lot of people don't realize it, but melatonin is a hormone. There's a reason you can't go to the CVS and get testosterone and estrogen, right? Because hormones affect the entire system. They affect all three almost 300 different things in your body. So, what you don't want to do is have somebody just willy-nilly grabbing a hormone and starting to pop it without somebody understanding what's going on with them. More importantly, melatonin in particular and the point I wanted to make earlier about depression. Melatonin interacts with all SSRI medication and SSRI is a serotonin specific re-uptake inhibitor, an anti-depressant. So things like Prozac, Zoloft, Selexa, all of those are medications that will be affected by melatonin ingestion and nobody knows that it is. In addition, melatonin affects birth control. It affects blood pressure medication and it affects diabetes medication. Melatonin is a sleep regulator, not a sleep initiator. Melatonin doesn't affect sleep drive. Melatonin affects sleep rhythm. Melatonin only affects your brain telling it when it's time to go to bed. It does not make you sleepy. You need to really be thoughtful about using it. Number two, melatonin is not to be used in children. Okay? So, a lot of people are like, "Michael, I've got pediatricians all over the country telling my telling me to give my children melatonin." I'm gonna say it right here in front of everybody. That is the dumbest idea I have heard in a long time because you just taught your child that they need a pill to sleep. No child needs pills to sleep. And by the way, most children make almost four times the amount of melatonin that their brain even needs. So, giving them extra melatonin doesn't do you any good. Dosage also is a problem. Like if you go to the drugstore, you can you almost can't find it in the appropriate dose. The appropriate dose is anywhere from about half a milligram to one and a half milligrams. Maybe top out at three, but that's about as high as you want to go. But when you go to CVS, you find that gummies in 10 and 20 milligrams. And people tell me all the time, "Oh, I can't take melatonin. It gives me crazy dreams." Number one side effect of overdosing on melatonin is crazy dreams.
Video description
Sleep expert Dr Michael reveals how melatonin works and why most people are using it wrong. #podcast #sleep #melatonin