Melatonin supplements have become more common than ever. For the unversed, melatonin is a hormone that your brain produces in response to darkness. It regulates your body's sleep-wake cycle.

It may be hard to define a melatonin overdose because no standard or safe dose has been established. However, in large amounts, melatonin supplements may disrupt sleep cycles and cause other acute ...

The few times I've taken any amount of melatonin, I felt groggy and "hungover" for hours the following day. My body's adverse reaction to melatonin seems to defeat the purpose of taking it in the ...

Caroline Igo (she/her/hers) is a wellness editor and holds Sleep Science Coach and Stress Management certificates from the Spencer Institute. She received her bachelor's degree in creative writing ...

One of them is serotonin, which plays an important role in how well and how long you sleep at night, and the other is melatonin, which regulates your circadian rhythm and helps you fall asleep.

Sleep problems can aggravate anxiety, and melatonin may help treat sleep issues. There is also some evidence that melatonin may help improve anxiety symptoms. Melatonin is a hormone produced by ...

Although many studies were carried out to evaluate the role of melatonin in GERD based on its effect in alleviation of GERD symptoms only, the review of literature showed that no previous studies ...

Administration of the pineal hormone melatonin (MEL) lowers serum gonadotropin (GN) levels, delays sexual maturation and elicits gonadal atrophy in rodents. In humans an antigonadotropic effect of ...

“Put down that phone in the evening as blue light can actually fool your brain into thinking it’s daytime and disrupt the natural production of melatonin – the hormone that regulates our sleep.

“Put down that phone in the evening as blue light can actually fool your brain into thinking it’s daytime and disrupt the natural production of melatonin – the hormone that regulates our sleep.

Melatonin straddles the boundary between food supplements and medicine. In Portugal, its classification is contingent upon a critical dosage threshold of 2 mg. This study aimed to detail the ...