Is melatonin safe to take?
1 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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In this German monologue the speaker shares a conflicted relationship with melatonin, warning against its use in teenagers and younger children because it can delay puberty. For adults, a low dose is described as generally helpful, but the speaker recounts personal experience with very high doses (40‑100 mg) that caused severe heart rhythm disturbances, leading to a hospital visit. The speaker references multiple case reports documenting similar cardiac side effects, especially in cancer patients using high‑dose melatonin. The overall advice is to avoid melatonin in youth, use the lowest effective dose in adults, and increase dosage very slowly if high doses are medically justified, due to the risk of bradycardia and arrhythmias.










