The San Francisco 49ers on Wednesday evening board their flight to begin their 15-hour flight to Australia. While everybody gets through long flights in their own way, defensive end Keion White has one radical solution.
White in the locker room after Tuesday's practice spoke with reporters and divulged the entirety of his simple plan in a video posted by KPIX's Matt Lively.
"I don't know if you can (overdose) on melatonin, but I'm gonna try" White said. "Take like, five melatonin. Go to sleep on the plane. As soon as I wake up I'm taking five more and just keep rolling like that."
Hopefully a member of the 49ers' health staff is overseeing White's melatonin usage on the plane. According to our quick WebMD search, overdosing on melatonin doesn't
typically result in death, but it does have some negative side effects.
Via WebMD:
Too much melatonin can lead to unwanted side effects. But it's very rare for a melatonin overdose to result in death. Each form of medication has a lethal dose, or LD 50. This term refers to the amount of supplement that would cause 50% of people to die. Experts haven't been able to find an LD 50 for melatonin. Very high doses of melatonin weren't even fatal in animals.
Among the unwanted side effects listed are short-lasting depression, mild anxiety, tremors, stomach cramps, irritability, less of an ability to be alert and confusion or disorientation.
Hopefully White doesn't run into any of those on the flight. The good news is he'll have a week to get over any lingering drowsiness and adverse effects a lot of melatonin may have.
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