Wendie Trubow, MD, MBA, IFMCPPresident at Five Journeys, Functional Medicine & Wellness Provider, Best Selling Author, Passionate Champion for Health

Other Health Benefits of Melatonin

14 May 2025 · 0 min

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Short conversational excerpt from a May 14, 2025 YouTube video in which Wendie Trubow, MD, MBA, IFMCP and another speaker discuss using melatonin clinically. Speakers describe using relatively high nightly doses of melatonin to increase HRV and buffer oxidative stress—particularly in postmenopausal women and following COVID infection—rather than solely for sleep. Wendie Trubow reports tapering her personal dose from 15 mg to 12 mg nightly after prior COVID infection.

Melatonin has been a game changer for increasing HRV buffering oxidative stress, and I use it on most of my postmenopausal ladies at like, really high doses. Not for the sleep part, that's great, but for the buffering of oxidative stress. Have you gotten into melatonin much?
So I use a lot of melatonin, especially given how prevalent Covid has been. I had Covid almost two years ago. @ this point, I'm still on high dose melatonin. I haven't. I've weaned down from 15 to 12 at night. I'm like, okay, one pill, pill less. But I am using melatonin a lot for antioxidant.
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