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▶ Your Top Health Questions Answered 1:05:27 “Some fertility experts will also recommend other things. And for that, I'll just cue you to Natalie Crawford's excellent book on the titled The Fertility Formula, as well as her podcast episode that she did with us, where she gets into some details of some other things that can be beneficial, because some experts will recommend things like low-dose melatonin at night” ▷ Essentials: Sleep Toolkit for Optimizing Sleep & Sleep-Wake Timing 28:22 “That sleep stack can be very beneficial to people. And I do think that it's preferable to melatonin.” ▷ How Women Can Improve Their Fertility & Hormone Health | Dr. Natalie Crawford 1:36:07 “Low doses of melatonin supplementation can impact fertility. So doses of one to three milligrams, 30 minutes before you go to bed, can improve your odds of getting pregnant as well, can influence egg quality.” ▷ The Science & Practice of Perfecting Your Sleep | Huberman Lab Essentials 21:07 “sadly the evidence in healthy adults who are not older age suggests that melatonin is not really particularly helpful as a sleep aid i think there was a recent meta-analysis and what that meta-analysis told us is that melatonin will only increase total amount of sleep by 3.9 minutes on average minutes minutes not even percent no and it will only increase your sleep efficiency by 2.2 percent.” ▷ Tools for Managing Stress & Anxiety | Huberman Lab Essentials 29:45 “I personally do not recommend supplementing melatonin because it's supplemented typically at very high levels, you know, one to three milligrams or even more. That is an outrageously high dose. It also has a number of potentially negative effects on the reproductive axis and hormones there.” ▷ How to Defeat Jet Lag, Shift Work & Sleeplessness | Huberman Lab Essentials 18:47 “So if you want to take melatonin in the afternoon in order to fall asleep, or in the evening, be my guest. That's up to you.” ▷ AMA #14: 2023 Philanthropy, Evening Routine, Light Therapy, Health Metrics & More 44:18 “If you're taking melatonin before sleep, oftentimes you'll fall asleep very readily and then wake up. So if you're taking melatonin, you might want to reconsider that. Melatonin does have its place for treatment of jet lag and things of that sort in the acute situations and not taking it too often, but in general, dosages are too high.” ▷ Developing a Rational Approach to Supplementation for Health & Performance | Huberman Lab Podcast 56:06 “I am not a fan of melatonin for a couple of reasons. Melatonin is a hormone known to induce sleepiness, but not keep us asleep... It can be useful for jet lag and for occasional use” ▷ AMA #2: Improve Sleep, Reduce Sugar Cravings, Optimal Protein Intake, Stretching Frequency & More 17:52 “And here, I'm not referring to melatonin. As many of you perhaps already know, I'm not a fan of melatonin for a variety of reasons, mainly the fact that most melatonin supplements out there don't actually contain the exact amount of melatonin that's listed on the bottle.” ▷ Diet & Nutrition for Mental Health | Dr. Chris Palmer 2:44:21 “And then I might use supplements, melatonin, others that you mentioned.” ▷ Sleep Toolkit: Tools for Optimizing Sleep & Sleep-Wake Timing 1:16:39 “That sleep stack can be very beneficial. And I do think that it's preferable to melatonin... the dosages of melatonin that are contained in most commercial products is far, far, far greater than what we would make endogenously.” ▷ Using Light (Sunlight, Blue Light & Red Light) to Optimize Health 33:46 “I am not a big fan of melatonin supplementation for a number of reasons... the levels of melatonin that are in most supplements are far too high to really be considered physiological. They are indeed super physiological in most cases.” ▷ Controlling Your Dopamine For Motivation, Focus & Satisfaction 2:06:49 “If you can avoid exogenous melatonin, meaning if you don't have to take melatonin and you can find a better alternative, that would be a good idea if you want to maintain healthy levels of dopamine.” ▷ The Science & Practice of Perfecting Your Sleep | Dr. Matt Walker 1:43:07 “Sadly, the evidence in healthy adults who are not older age suggests that melatonin is not really particularly helpful as a sleep aid. ... melatonin will only increase total amount of sleep by 3.9 minutes on average.” ▷ The Science of Hearing, Balance & Accelerated Learning 1:27:07 “Three milligrams in these studies for a duration of anywhere from 30 days to much longer in some cases, six months... all four of these studies found modest, yet still statistically significant effects of taking melatonin by mouth... in reducing the severity of tinnitus.” ▷ How to Control Your Metabolism by Thyroid & Growth Hormone 59:27 “There are some data showing that microgram, maybe 500 micrograms of melatonin, so half a milligram, can be beneficial in shifting the pattern of early night sleep toward more of the slow wave, deep sleep, delta activity, and improving growth hormone release.” ▷ The Science of Emotions & Relationships 1:27:18 “believe it or not, melatonin, our old friend melatonin... it seems like melatonin in some cases can prime the system for slightly increased oxytocin release.” ▷ Tools for Managing Stress & Anxiety 1:18:18 “Melatonin helps you fall asleep. It doesn't help you stay asleep. I personally do not recommend supplementing melatonin because it's supplemented typically at very high levels.” ▷ How to Defeat Jet Lag, Shift Work & Sleeplessness 49:26 “Melatonin is used widely for inducing sleepiness when you want to fall asleep in the new location that you've arrived ... It does not help you stay asleep. ... In the elderly, that's when melatonin might be a viable option.” ▷ Master Your Sleep & Be More Alert When Awake 22:31 “So should you take melatonin? My personal bias is no, but for many people, they find that it does help them.”