[badminton1]

Sure, probably I oversimplified it, but melatonin does play a more central role in sleep than some of the factors mentioned in the article.

If you are interested in sleep, the 2017 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine was awarded to 3 researchers for their work in advancing the understanding of the circadian rhythm.

An article can be found here:

https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2...

Melatonin is not explicitly mentioned there but you will find multiple occurrences of "hormone release". Melatonin is one of such hormones.

[DanBC]

Melatonin is useful for people who can't get to sleep.

It's not so useful for people who wake up during the night, and it's not at all useful for people who wake early.

Your lack of understanding of insomnia is causing you to massively over-simplify, which is probably really fucking annoying to people who've lived with insomnia for years and gone through good quality medical and psychological treatments.

[AznHisoka]

melatonin is one of those "low hanging fruit" solutions people always give for insomnia. And 99% of the time, it never works. At least for me. If only it was that easy.

[tomcam]

Amen, brother or sister