In my last blog I promised that I’d tell you about a natural supplement that can help your sleep.
Melatonin: A Natural Supplement That Helps Improve your Sleep.
Melatonin is a hormonal supplement that assists. It can be taken very safely along most medications including anti-depressants.
Melatonin is the hormone of sleep, and therefore when taken 30 minutes before bed it can help you get to sleep faster, and help you stay asleep. In some countries you need a prescription for it through your doctor, but in other countries like the USA you can buy it at health shops/pharmacies.
What’s the Dose?
The standard dosage range is 0.3-3 mg. To begin with, start with only a small amount of melatonin. More is not always better. Only increase the dose if it’s not helping you enough.
Melatonin has Other Benefits
Melatonin gives your body extra benefits over about it helping your sleep. Melatonin is known as a powerful anti-aging supplement. One of the reasons for this is that it is a strong antioxidant, and helps optimize levels of sex hormones in the body (keeping you young).
Melatonin also fights cancer in many different ways. It’s antioxidant function is just one way that it fights cancer. It helps balance the estrogen hormone in the body, and therefore ladies supplementing with this hormone helps prevent breast cancer. High doses of melatonin (much higher than you take for sleep) are currently being used for the treatment of cancer, with great promise.
Here’s a melatonin product that I trust.
All the best
Janelle
Dr Janelle Sinclair
Clinical Biochemist
Melatonin is a particularly strong antioxidant, it reduces cancer’s ability to grow and it stimulates the immune system to increase its ability to deal with cancers and infections. It has been subject to a huge range of animal and human studies with the knowledge of its usefulness in inhibiting cancer going back more than 30 years.
So you can see it is a very desirable hormone. Unfortunately modern society does not have good “light hygiene” which encourages substantial melatonin production – in fact, just the opposite.
Culturally in the western world it is considered more socially desirable to be a person who likes to party well into the night, than to be a person who enjoys getting up at dawn. Nowadays it is much more common for city people to spend most of their work day indoors regardless of the time of the year. Heating in winter and air conditioning in the summer also contribute to our indoor lifestyles.
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