The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
There's another reason, which is that melatonin will help you fall asleep but it won't help you stay asleep, and many people who take melatonin find that they wake up three to five hours later unable to fall back asleep.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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The pineal gland is the gland that makes melatonin, which, at night when it gets dark, secretes melatonin, and that melatonin makes you sleepy, it helps you fall asleep but not stay asleep.
So melatonin is used widely for inducing sleepiness when you want to fall asleep in the new location that you've arrived. You can't fall asleep. You take melatonin. And it helps you fall asleep. It does not help you stay asleep.