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If they are targeted at older patients, I'd expect them to be a sensible starting point for older patients

Last time I was in the US the lowest dose melatonin gummies I could find in a CVS were 1mg — kids gummies.

That's more than 3x the actual recommended dose for an average adult based on the research others have shared in this thread. So no, they're not starting from a sensible starting point.

Were they packaged as kid gummies or are you presuming that gummies = kids? Because that hasn’t been the case for a long time. Those vitamin D gummies I buy because I will take them instead of might take them consistently, are not child doses either. They’re marketing gummies to adults here.

There is no such thing as "older people" dose.

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