"[history]- i had started taking melatonin (3mg) to help me sleep, shortly after my divorce. as my body &#039;adjusted&#039; to it, i began to increase the dose, eventually (over several years) working up to 30mg. well, not too long after that, i desperately needed to be put on testosterone therapy (my level was &#039;zilch&#039;). lo-and-behold, it had just been determined that men should not take large doses of melatonin for that very reason!
looking for *natural* aids, i found that drinking (&quot;wild&quot;/&quot;black&quot;) cherry juice can improve the quality of your sleep ... but, it does so by boosting the amount of the melatonin in the body(!) skip that one....  i then tried valerian root, which proved equally effective. "