Why you should take melatonin to help your sleep

Melatonin, is a very useful herbal supplement and has many benefits, few harms, and few side effects. We suggest you may want to discuss whether melatonin is right for you with your health care provider

1. Melatonin helps sleep quality. Maintenance of your body’s natural sleep and awake cycle known as a normal circadian rhythm is best managed through your body’s production of melatonin.
2. Melatonin will help you function as if you are in the darkest room.We know that the amount of light we are exposed to can affect the melatonin secretion and how we sleep.
3. Melatonin balances your whole biologic clock. is one of the cerebral chemicals used for balance to your biological clock. This is actually the most important fact to know. When you take it you need to take it early enough to help you switch your biological clock.
4. Melatonin, has been shown improve sex.
5. In in adults with chronic migraines, of at least 4 headaches a month, it only 3 mg dosage it reduced the frequency of headaches by over 50%.
6. Melatonin’s function to restore natural sleep rhythms will be enhanced by foods high in zinc and magnesium.
7. Melatonin is a pain treatment as well as a therapy for sleep. We also know that sleep deprivation also amplifies pain through increase in total body inflammation. So any pain disorder is made worse by lack of sleep which is why some people think of it as a pain treatment, and indirectly it is.
8. Melatonin reduces risk of heart disease. Besides being a neurogenic agent melatonin is an antioxidant.
9. ? Prevent cancer, that’s a reach but: Breast cancer diagnosis is 600% greater in women with low melatonin. So why not boost your melatonin
10. Dosing of Melatonin should ideally be a few hours before sleep, it’s not exactly a ‘sleeping pill’ that brings on sleep quickly.
11. Regular melatonin users report fewer headaches.
12. Prevent Endometriosis? Endometriosis may be reduced by melatonin use. It’s now shown to decrease endometriosis (in rats) which can cause painful sex. Turkish investigators have been studying the condPition of endometriosis in rats. Apparently melatonin treatments helped resolve the endometriosis through it’s action as antioxidant. Research has not been confirmed in women, and we’re not sure what the dose would be.
13. Dosing for melatonin may be enhanced with other sleep aids, for this you may want to directly consult your provider.. Will watch the research with interest, would like them to try the newest sleep combos: melatonin (5 mg), zinc (11.25 mg), and magnesium (225 mg).