Melatonin: Beyond the Sleep Benefit

So today we’re going to talk about melatonin and all the benefits that potentially can occurthat go beyond just the sleep benefits. Now I’m not recommending taking melatonin as a supplementunless you are treating a very specific thing. For example, there’s some great data that showsthat high levels of melatonin can improve dementia or Alzheimer’s, and I’ll put a link down below forthat video if you haven’t seen it already. But for the general public, I don’t recommend taking

melatonin. Why? Because your body can make its own. Now, it is true that as you age, it makesless and less and less, but there are things that you can do right now to improve it. But for thisvideo, let’s just talk about the benefits that go beyond the sleep cycles. Number one, melatonin isa very potent antioxidant. In fact, it’s twice as strong as vitamin E, and it has the potential toincrease other antioxidants like glutathione, especially in your mitochondria. So this just

backs up the benefits of getting enough sleep, because if you’re not getting enough sleep,you’re definitely not getting enough melatonin. Well, I probably could have entitled this videobenefits of getting enough sleep. Okay, number two, immune system support.Melatonin highly influences your immune system. So the less melatonin, the less resistance youhave against pathogens and the more problems you have. Melatonin is a powerful anti-inflammatory.

So the less melatonin, the less sleep you have, the more inflammation you’re going to have.Also, melatonin can help reduce headaches. It has anti-cancer properties. It hasneuroprotective properties. It helps with memory and preventing dementia.There’s some great data. I just released a video on it, and I’m going to put a link down belowthat reveals that if you actually take higher levels of melatonin, it can decrease LH,

luteinizing hormone that is connected to Alzheimer’s. You can check out that videodown below. It’s very, very interesting. All right, number eight, it can help you decreaseGERD. That is a situation where you have acid that’s coming up through into the esophagusfrom the stomach. Number nine, melatonin helps reduce anxiety. I mean, this makes sense becausepeople that don’t sleep, they become anxious. They worry. Number 10, decreased depression.

Same thing. If you’re not sleeping, you’re going to be tired. You’re going to be depressed.Number 11, improving blood sugars. We know that if you don’t sleep, your blood sugars are goingto definitely be off. One thing you need to know is that as you age, your melatonin drops down.so what can you do to bring it back up well what stimulates melatonin darkness so make sure thatin your bedroom at least an hour before you’re going to sleep you turn some of the lights off

if you’re watching tv don’t have a lot of the lights around you because it’s going to confusethe body darkness stimulates melatonin the sun during the day will inhibit the melatoninproduction of the pineal gland and help melatonin recharge. So if you’re inside all day and you havefluorescent lights and you’re sitting behind your computer, a lot of blue light, that can preventyour pineal cells from recharging melatonin. So we want sun during the day, sun exposure,

good amount of vitamin D, and then we want dark at night with less blue light. There’s a greatapp that you can get that will filter out blue light. I’ll put a link down below as well.You want to avoid eating right before bed because that can actually mess up your sleepand inhibit melatonin production. Glucose will also inhibit melatonin production. Soa high-carb diet is not good. We want a low-carb diet. I think that’s called keto.

Okay, decrease the amount of TV right before bed. Sometimes people are watching a lot of TVand maybe the wrong types of shows that rev up the adrenaline and then they can’t sleep at night. Somaybe a small amount of TV before you go to bed, but something that doesn’t keep you up at night.There are also foods that you can eat that have melatonin in those foods. Mushrooms have a goodsupply of melatonin. Eggs do have melatonin. Fish and nuts. So these foods can help increase

melatonin as well. And on that note, I’ll see you in the next video.I think you should hurry up, watch the recipe, and make it yourself.It’s just so easy to be keto.But is it simple?It’s super simple.

We hope you enjoy making it as much as we are enjoying eating it.