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by LuvSauce 2078 days ago
As long as you use melatonin sublingually it should do the same thing right down to the 4hr nap, only .3-1mg is needed.
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> only .3-1mg is needed

It's a bit more subtle than that: the correct dose is about 300 to 1000 micrograms. Doses significantly larger than that will not work for most people. The effective dosing window for melatonin is narrow, so more is not better.

It doesn't help that most melatonin available OTC in the US is in doses of 3mg to 10mg. This stuff is not useful. You need the 300 microgram pills, the 1 milligram pills, the liquid, or as a last resort the 3mg pills with a splitter.