2026-06-26
44 分钟Are you concerned that melatonin is becoming more and more popular
as a way to solve lifestyle issues that have caused sleep impairment?
Because I'm seeing loads of, you know, I'm an investor, so I see lots of companies now pitching me different products
that have melatonin in them as a sort of day-to-day sleeping supplement.
I think I'm really torn.
I've been on both sides of this argument and I'm cautious about it for two reasons.
The first is in pediatric populations here in the United States.
Pediatric?
Yeah.
So the people's use of melatonin in kids is increasing.
So in pediatric populations, it's Increasing exponentially and in fact if you go down the sort of the supermarket
aisles here in America often if you go into sort of the health
sort of food section there's this big purple section that's the melatonin section
and a large proportion of that is that dedicated to gummies for your children with melatonin and.
There was a study that was published about three years ago that showed here in America, over the past 10 years,
there has been a 503% increase in poisonous overdose admissions to hospitals of melatonin in the past 10 years.
503% increase.
So firstly, we've got to be a bit careful.
The second reason is that melatonin is a bioactive hormone.
And it's also involved in reproductive development.