Melatonin is a savior to some. It’s a “natural” way to shut your brain off and get your wired asked to sleep. It’s obscenely inexpensive and available in such a wide variety of stores that it’s actually more unusual not to find melatonin somewhere.

I can buy an out-of-season button-up shirt at TJ Maxx, and pick up some melatonin in the massive checkout line on the way out. Melatonin is a bit of a miracle, just as long as you don’t overdo it, because it might make your heart explode.

Not that you really need to worry too much about that.

Melatonin Might Mess With Your Heart—But Don’t Panic Yet

A massive study reviewing the health records of over 130,000 adults with chronic insomnia found that people prescribed melatonin for more than a year were more likely to develop heart failure, be

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