Melatonin and ADHD

Main Chapters: 00:00 Intro - Melatonin and ADHD 00:10 Take home message 01:56 What is Melatonin? 07:24 Potential Side Effects of Melatonin 10:51 Melatonin and ADHD 15:09 Melatonin Products Dosage Inaccuracies Melatonin, a natural hormone, has been helping humans fall asleep for hundreds of thousands of years. But the last decade has seen a marked increase in the use of melatonin pills and gummies to help people fall asleep. Ingestion of melatonin is now the most frequent substance reported to US poison control centers. (Most overdoses are benign, but at least two deaths have been reported.) Sleep disorders, particularly delayed and inconsistent sleep onset, are common among those with ADHD. Melatonin can help improve and advance the onset of sleep in youth and adults with ADHD. Sleep benefits occur whether or not the individuals are taking ADHD medications or not. We have almost no data indicating whether melatonin supplements result in improvement in daytime ADHD symptoms, but it is quite unlikely to cause harm. ----- Free link to my Medium Article on Melatonin and ADHD: https://medium.com/wise-well/melatoni... Follow   / dockruse   on Medium for hundreds of full length articles on this subject and more! Access to Full Medium articles requires paid membership. ----- References: Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome in Adults: A Randomized Clinical Trial on the Effects of Chronotherapy on Sleep (van Andes 2022) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1... Low Doses of Melatonin to Improve Sleep in Children with ADHD: An Open-Label Trial (2023) https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9067/10/7/1121 Efficacy and Safety of Melatonin Treatment in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder—A Review of the Literature (2020) https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/10/4/219 Quantity of Melatonin and CBD in Melatonin Gummies Sold in the US (2023) https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama... Pediatric Melatonin Ingestions — United States, 2012–2021 https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/w... Full Chapter list: 00:00 Intro - Melatonin and ADHD 00:10 Take home message 01:56 What is Melatonin? 04:27 Melatonin and Sleep 05:55 Melatonin Half-life and Dosages 07:24 Potential Side Effects of Melatonin 09:43 Melatonin Overdose 10:51 Melatonin and ADHD 11:28 2022 Study on Melatonin and ADHD 15:09 Melatonin Products Dosage Inaccuracies 16:41 Outro Streamed live November 1, 2023 ------------------------- Psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and author John Kruse, MD, PhD presents practical, actionable, well-researched information about treatment options that scientists and clinicians recommend for adult ADHD and other mental health conditions. Subscribe if you're curious about how neuroatypical brains can optimize their functioning in our shared, and somewhat strange, world. ADHD topics have a pink background, and those on more general mental health topics have a purple background. A small collection of Politics related videos have an orange background. Dr. Kruse has posted videos in the "Videos", "Live", and "Shorts", sections of this channel. You're welcome to email him with topics you want discussed or people you think he should interview. [email protected] #health #mentalhealth #adhd #melatonin