Re: sleeping pills
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I'm just saying, tell me what i'm missing?
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From what I can tell, two main points missed are:
1. dosage
2. type of hormone
If someone is taking 2-3 3mg pills pf melatonin every night before bed, I'd be shocked if that person didn't develop some sort of tolerance/addiction to external sources of melatonin, as the pineal gland does not produce anywhere near that much. However, if a person takes 1-2 300 mcg pills of melatonin every night, I'd be shocked if there were any long-term ramifications whatsoever. To people who do not take MAOIs, melatonin is very very safe, and is thought to have many other positive fringe benefits (helps obesity by aiding in body weight regulation, known immunoregulator, known antioxidant, etc.)
Admittedly, taking melatonin is taking a hormone. Taking Human Growth Hormone (HGH) is also taking a hormone. Taking anabolic steriods is taking a hormone. There are clear differences in regards to potential damage (short-term and long-term) caused by these three examples.
Maybe I should have been more clear in my statement of taking melatonin + 5-HTP, that I meant:
take 300 mcg melatonin + 100 mg 5-HTP
not
take 3 mg melatonin + 1 g 5-HTP
there is a very clear difference between these.
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