Dr Katz’s explanation is still way too technical for this simple mind, after the first paragraph.
Also, if it’s true that “melatonin is NOT about sleep although that’s how it’s marketed”, then how come it turned little jeremiah into a zombie? I have similar concerns to hers.
Likely niacin deficient. Had LJ taken the melatonin with niacin, that may not have happened. Perhaps she's melatonin abundant. That's what this protocol is about - finding that balance between the two. We're not talking about a remedy here. We're talking about attacking a root nutritional deficiency responsible for pushing out inflammation.
I have a few more doses before I get to my target dose, but I will publish my notes for y'all when complete. As far as how I feel - I see an improvement in overall aches and pains (of which I have few). My smokers cough has improved a noticeable amount. Sleep quality has improved, but not really length.
I’m much more familiar with use of herbs than “supplements” whether mineral, vitamin or “other”. Whereas you put me in a room with amalaki, prunella, burdock, and kapi kacchu, and I’ll talk your ear off about energies, heating and cooling, diaphoretcs, alteratives and so on...
My naturopath doc said melatonin is helpful in cancer treatment, and it is also supposed to help with acid reflux, so I bought it for me and DH was dealing with horribile acid reflux. He could take it without any side effects at all; me - night of the living dead. Or day, didn’t matter. The zombie state lasted 24 hrs each time I tried it. We figured the dose out with a gram scale (got the powder) and used the amount you could fit on the very end of a flat toothpick. IOW a teensy tiny amount.