Stop taking melatonin as a sleep aid, say sleep doctors
By Veronique Greenwood Staff Writer, Health & Science
I once heard someone behind me in a cafe describing her kids' bedtime ritual: bath, book, melatonin. I was surprised, because in more than a decade of writing about sleep, I've heard many times to be cautious about melatonin supplements.
Maybe those kids were prescribed the hormone by a doctor. But chances are, they weren't, and they're not alone—in the U.S., lots of kids and adults take melatonin as if it were a vitamin, something harmless and potentially helpful. The hormone has more effects than we realize.
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