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Should you be taking melatonin supplements?

have trouble sleeping are you taking melatonin to help you sleep well let me first off tell you what exactly is melatonin melatonin is a hormone that's produced mostly at night and it makes you sleepy and then during the morning the amount of melatonin decreases that you feel more awake many people are taking melatonin to help them sleep better but is it really safe well in a study of 30 supplements they found there was a lot of variability in the amount of melatonin you're taking secondly eight of 30 of those supplements had what's called serotonin in them and serotonin is actually a controlled substance it's not something that you should be taking without the supervision of a physician many parents are giving it to their kids to help them fall asleep at night we don't know how it's going to affect children's natural hormone production and it may impact puberty so all in all be careful if you're using melatonin for those reasons and try not to use it on a regular basis

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