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Michelle Olaithe

Michelle Olaithe

Researcher

Aug 26, 2026

18:32
What are your thoughts on melatonin?
18:35
Oh, I love this topic.
18:37
So melatonin, I think a lot of people take it because they think it helps them get sleepy.
18:43
But that is, as you have already kind of suggested, that's a misunderstanding.
18:48
Melatonin is meant to help your body regulate into a rhythm.
18:53
And the ideal sort of way that you take it is you take it at the same time every evening, about half an hour to a couple of hours before you want to fall asleep.
19:01
And you take it the same time in order to try to get your body to pick up a routine.

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32:59
You know, it's although hearing changes in hearing and sensitivity of
speaker_3HOST
2:48
Tell us how we do that, Michelle.
2:51
Yeah, so there's a lot of stigma still around mental health when really what we need to be doing, because everyone experiences at some point in time, either because we've got 50% of the population of their lifetime will experience a mental health episode, or they'll experience it, maybe if they haven't experienced it, they'll experience it through someone.
3:11
It's the same as physical health.
3:13
And so even though there's a lot of stigma around it, it is really common.
3:17
And so it's really important that we break the stigma down and show people that this is a really common and normal experience because we all get born into this world and we all have very interesting experiences.
3:30
And sometimes those experiences we can resolve on our own and other times we can't resolve them on our own.
3:36
And that's when they can impact the way that we think, we feel or we behave.
speaker_3HOST
5:08
Is there some brief explanation you can say, well, no, that's what they do, but this is what we do?

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