Now Foods Melatonin 5 Mg Healthy Sleep Cycle Capsules - 60 Veg Capsules

My gym trainer suggested this. It’s good and works

It does work , but if you don’t get enough sleep you might feel weak in the morning

Very good supplement for sleep with no side effects.

Good

Very good. Just, packaging should be slightly improved. Otherwise good.

best product

After using the product for 10 days (my personal experience): Does it make you sleep: Absolutely yes!! Does it make you reap benefits of good sleep: Not at all!! I don't see a point in using a product for better sleep if it makes you sleep but still you feel like you haven't slept, and you feel this the entire day!! Despite sleeping for 8–9 hours, you wake up absolutely tired and yawny, you lack energy and have almost no mental energy to work. Absolutely counterproductive in my experience!! I had read about this earlier that most of the melatonin supplements are offering 10+ mg, which is way too much compared to what the body naturally produces. I'm not really sure what science is backing this. Melatonin metabolism is highly subjective and varies from person to person. Apparently, in my body the compound stayed for too long and constantly kept me out of energy. I'd advise other people to start with small dosages like 1–3 mg (only if you're able to find that product :-p). I felt much more functional with less sleep without this product after quitting it.

Had previously used Nutrol 10 mg but this one doesn't have same relaxing and quick effect as nutrol product maybe it differ from person to person.

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Good quality product to help with sleep issues. No side effects or drowsiness upon waking.

I've been taking this Melatonin 5 mg. for about a year. Before that I was taking a 3mg dose and I did find that upgrading to 5mg helped me fall asleep even better. I've also heard there is a promising research for Melatonin to be good for our health and not just our sleep so that's a bonus. I don't find that I can't sleep without this product so it isn't addicting. If I go off a night, I can still get to sleep and suffer no consequences. I have used many products by the NOW brand and I trust them to provide a quality product like they have in this case. The capsules aren't very big at all so they are easy to take with a swig of water.

Great quality works wonderful

Melatonin is derived either chemically/synthetically, extracted from a plant, or extracted from the brain of an animal. Most melatonin you find in walmart etc, is a synthetic melatonin. Synthetic melatonin is not identical in molecular structure to natural melatonin. Some chemicals like this, can do more harm than good in the long term. Just because this product is natural does not mean it should be used indiscriminately. In parts of Europe melatonin is a controlled substance that cannot be obtained without a prescription. It does work, it is a hormonal drug, and it is powerful. Your body can become less sensitive to melatonin and it's own melatonin production can decline with long term use over 2 months. Therefore it should be used with some discretion. Your body can also increase its sensitivity over time to melatonin and regain it's own production if supplementation is paused. How long that takes will depend on the person. Melatonin is a hormone that is produced by the pineal gland in mammals, which chemically interacts with your brain to help induce sleep. Melatonin levels with most people elevate when their eyes are exposed to darkness, increasing as their length of time in darkness increases. Some people, such as those diagnosed with ADD, or depression, or a SSRI (selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitor) , may have impaired uptake of melatonin, or their brains are not as efficient at using it, so a boost can be useful, especially in today's world where people keep lights on until 11pm. I have taken Dramamine, and Tylenol PM, and generic sleep pills in the past to go to sleep while people upstairs were being noisy even with my ear plugs in. The problem with those is they loose effectiveness overtime, and you can form a dependance on them. Since Dramamine is an antihistamine it drys out my sinus cavity, also it is not a very natural sleep, it knocks you out when you first use it, but like all antihistamines your body gets used to it over time and it looses its effect. Tylenol PM and sleep pills both knock you out in an unnatural sleep where when you wake up you are still dragging 3 hours later until you get some coffee in you. And then there is dependance. With Melatonin, you go to sleep in about 30 minutes after taking it, you might wake up a couple times through the night, but you will still be easily able to go back to sleep. And when you wake up, this is the best part, you really, really feel like you have a dang good sleep. If you are fully rested, melatonin will NOT keep you knocked out in a chemical stupor. You wake up like you never took anything. So if you are expecting this to force you to sleep in the middle of the day, it probably wont work. Also if you expose your eyes to light, you reduce your levels of melatonin, it would be like taking sleeping pills while drinking coffee. Melatonin put me to sleep fast, it is a drug, and it does work, and there is tons of medical research to back it up. It is after all what your own brain already uses to facilitate sleep. It is non-habit forming, and does not loose effectiveness overtime. So basically it's the best thing to put yourself to sleep since it is what our bodies naturally evolved to use for that exact purpose. It has the added benefit of being a potent antioxidant. Melatonin can cross the brain barrier to act on free radicals in your brain. Melatonin is a direct scavenger of OH, O2', and NO, which are basically oxidizers that can cause cellular damage and mutations. In some studies on mice melatonin increased their lives 20%.. and mice are not susceptible to the placebo effect. I trust the NOW brand. There are a lot of really cruddy brands out there that have lots of fillers in them, like Natures Way sold at walmart. I have seen products at walmart in the vitamin section that have bull-adrenaline and radioactive metals in them, seriously. With natural products you need to be careful about what brand you buy, because they are not regulated by the FDA. Since they fall in the natural food category, the FDA doesn't feel it needs to do any research, since there is no profit for drug companies on the line. I have bought many NOW-brand products in the past. They are all all-natural, they are all potent without any fillers, they all work, and they are all priced very fairly for the quality. NOW is a brand that is sold in natural health food stores all over North America, including Wild Oats, Sprouts, Nutters, and other well-known chains. And when getting a hormone based drug like Melatonin, for the difference of a couple bucks, I would not mess around. If you let the vegetarian gel capsule dissolve in your mouth, it has zero taste, so you can hold it under your tongue for a faster response time if desired. Hope this review helps