Anyone Try Melatonin Supliments?

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If it works for you, use it. I think (my posts anyway) were just to provide more possible info. But if there is one thing I've learned in various interactions with the medical world, it is that everyone's body is different and most medical knowledge is based on averages, ease of providing care & the center of a bell curve!

All artificial light used in homes contains the blue light as part of the spectrum of visible light. Unless you specifically went out of your way to use only red lights or non bluelights in your home there was no such time in your life as "before blue lights" unless you were living without electricity which I find highly unlikely. You mistake blue light for only lights that are literally blue when blue light refers to the part of the spectrum that is blue that makes up visible light.

Well, when I was a kid everyone else slept without a problem except me, even my cousins who were around my age. I was the only one that drove the others crazy because I couldn't sleep most the night not even after laying in the dark for four hours. So this leads me to believe the blue lights weren't the problem as much as perhaps my brain wasn't producing much melatonin on its own.

If these supplements were around when I was a small child and my mom knew about them and gave me the right dosage who knows, sure could have saved me and everyone else a lot of trouble.

"White" LEDs such as those used to light television, computer, phone & tablet screens (and are replacing incandescent & fluorescent bulbs in fixtures) are especially problematic. They aren't actually white. Instead they each contain three LEDs, one each of red, green and blue of roughly equal brightness. Our visual systems then "see" this as white light. The blue LED in the trio has a peak wavelength of 465-475 nm; the Circadian response is centered on about 480nm. Which means white LEDs are a very close match to the part of our visual system that regulates sleep.