My experience, is that melatonin is a realy fucked up drug
it will strip your psyche and feed it back to you in one epic motherfucker of a dream
but then seems to loose that quickly and not realy do anything at all, and is totaly pointless.
Plus the harder I work physicaly, the better I sleep, eat, think, plan, strategise, and reafirm my capacity to deal with stuff.
For people who dont do physical work, like my father, leading a very,very, disaplined orderly life, with lots of self care,and even when when things go wrong maintaining routine and habits, seems to be key.
This has been posted & discussed extensively in the past
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45867371
As I understand it, tryptophan can become either niacin or serotonin in metabolism.
Serotonin is the natural source of all malatonin.
Niacin and tryptophan will maximize the serotonin pathway, but this is deadly with an SSRI.
The kynuerenine pathway makes a bunch of stuff besides niacinamide aka nicotinamide.
88% to 96% of tryptophan on average iirc, gets turned into kynurenine from average intake.
My experience, is that melatonin is a realy fucked up drug it will strip your psyche and feed it back to you in one epic motherfucker of a dream but then seems to loose that quickly and not realy do anything at all, and is totaly pointless. Plus the harder I work physicaly, the better I sleep, eat, think, plan, strategise, and reafirm my capacity to deal with stuff. For people who dont do physical work, like my father, leading a very,very, disaplined orderly life, with lots of self care,and even when when things go wrong maintaining routine and habits, seems to be key.