Melatonin is not available over the counter in the UK and presumably various other countries, being a regulated drug. However, sour cherry juice (aka tart cherry juice, Montmorency cherry juice) has a high melatonin content.
A suitable dose would be at least half a glass of cherry juice drink (typically containing 25-30% cherry juice); maybe a glass or more if that doesn’t work. Drink say half an hour before bed.
Cherry juice drink is available in the UK from larger branches of Tescos, Sainsburys, or online. If taking daily (probably not recommended) you could instead use Active Edge CherryActive Concentrate which is about 14x concentrated, so 1 teaspoonful of the concentrate would be equivalent to a glass of cherry juice drink.
(100g of sour cherry, hence presumably 100ml of undiluted cherry juice, contains around 1.3mg melatonin.)
I’ve always been able to find somewhere online to ship melatonin to the UK. Last time it was from lifeextensioneurope.co.uk, but a quick glance doesn’t show melatonin there any more, so I might need to go hunting again next time I need to replenish :(
Or maybe I’ll try the cherry juice, so thanks for the tip!
Melatonin is not available over the counter in the UK and presumably various other countries, being a regulated drug. However, sour cherry juice (aka tart cherry juice, Montmorency cherry juice) has a high melatonin content.
A suitable dose would be at least half a glass of cherry juice drink (typically containing 25-30% cherry juice); maybe a glass or more if that doesn’t work. Drink say half an hour before bed.
Cherry juice drink is available in the UK from larger branches of Tescos, Sainsburys, or online. If taking daily (probably not recommended) you could instead use Active Edge CherryActive Concentrate which is about 14x concentrated, so 1 teaspoonful of the concentrate would be equivalent to a glass of cherry juice drink.
(100g of sour cherry, hence presumably 100ml of undiluted cherry juice, contains around 1.3mg melatonin.)
I’ve always been able to find somewhere online to ship melatonin to the UK. Last time it was from lifeextensioneurope.co.uk, but a quick glance doesn’t show melatonin there any more, so I might need to go hunting again next time I need to replenish :(
Or maybe I’ll try the cherry juice, so thanks for the tip!
(edit: the european site still has it. I dunno yet whether they’ll ship it to the UK. https://www.lifeextensioneurope.com/antioxidants/melatonin/)