Available in the form of medications or food supplements, melatonin has its admirers among consumers, but also its detractors among researchers.
And for good reason: it promises to make us sleep.
What do we really know about its effects?
“
Melatonin
?
It is a regulator of the
biological clock, it has never been a sleeping pill,”
says Joëlle Adrien, neurobiologist and emeritus research director at Inserm.
“
By indicating to the brain that night has arrived, it is helpful to many people,”
says neurologist Isabelle Arnulf, in charge of the department dedicated to sleep pathologies at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital.
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