The Unexpected Power of Melatonin_ Beyond Sleep Aid

Melatonin, in and of itself is one of these things that, you know, in the literature, using high doses can be really helpful in breast cancer patients as adjunct therapy. I mean, I use whopping doses just to get people to sleep, but sometimes I use it in the setting of COVID infectious etiology. I'll use melatonin in the setting of someone who's chronically inflamed and oxidative and not sleeping. And they're like, really? That much? I was only taking 1 milligram. You're going to be fine. And you just kind of get them to the point where they're sleeping, and then you can reverse, titrate. You're not going to hurt that person. But the trickle down on these other hormone cascades, and then there's a bottom up mechanism as well, is that you get these loops that happen and one begets the other, and you just get kind of caught or stuck in it.