“So suppose I want to go to bed at 11, and take 0.3 mg melatonin. Now my body has a melatonin peak (usually associated with the very middle of the night, like 3 AM) at 11. If it assumes that means it’s really 3 AM, then it might decide to wake up 5 hours later, at what it thinks is 8 AM, but which is actually 4.”
That does make sense. But my conclusion according to this logic is different from the article’s recommendation:
Say I want to shift my 8hrs. sleep phase from 2-10 o’clock to 1-9 o’clock, ie. by one hour backwards. Then—according to what I understood—my peak melatonin level is at 6 AM. So I take melatonin 1 hour earlier, at 5 AM to trick my brain this “as” the middle of my sleep phase. The article however recommends to treat DPSD by taking Melatonin during daytime, something like 7 hours before sleep, which is a conclusion I can’t quite follow..?
“So suppose I want to go to bed at 11, and take 0.3 mg melatonin. Now my body has a melatonin peak (usually associated with the very middle of the night, like 3 AM) at 11. If it assumes that means it’s really 3 AM, then it might decide to wake up 5 hours later, at what it thinks is 8 AM, but which is actually 4.”
That does make sense. But my conclusion according to this logic is different from the article’s recommendation:
Say I want to shift my 8hrs. sleep phase from 2-10 o’clock to 1-9 o’clock, ie. by one hour backwards. Then—according to what I understood—my peak melatonin level is at 6 AM. So I take melatonin 1 hour earlier, at 5 AM to trick my brain this “as” the middle of my sleep phase. The article however recommends to treat DPSD by taking Melatonin during daytime, something like 7 hours before sleep, which is a conclusion I can’t quite follow..?