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What is melatonin

BY Edwina Ellis 2019-01-14

  With the acceleration of life rhythm and the increase of life stress, many people do not sleep well at night, and sometimes insomnia all night, all night long, it is likely to cause neurasthenia and frequent headaches In the case of grumpy, sometimes you need to take medicine to help sleep, and occasionally you will see melatonin, so what is melatonin?

  First, fade black What is vegetarian?
   Melatonin is actually a natural hormone. After entering the human body, it can effectively control and affect the secretion of certain hormones in the body. It can be said that it is a necessity in the human body. The element of melatonin is basically reduced after the middle and old age. At this time, the quality of sleep will also be significantly reduced. If you want endocrine balance and good health, you need to supplement it appropriately.
  Second, the benefits of melatonin
  1, hypnosis
  Clinical use of melatonin in small doses will have certain The hypnotic effect of ordinary people is about 0.1 to 0.3 mg, the hypnotic effect will be more ideal.

  2, no increase Metabolic burden
  Melatonin belongs to an endogenous substance, which can play a role by adjusting the endocrine system after entering the human body. And there will be its own metabolic pathways in the human body, generally will not accumulate in the body for a long time, or increase the metabolic burden. And the metabolism rate of melatonin in the human body is relatively fast, usually after a few hours of oral administration, the metabolism can be completed.

  3, Less toxic
  Melatonin can not only improve people''s sleep quality and deepen sleep after use, but also have certain improvement effect on human body function state, thereby improving people''s quality of life and delaying aging In addition, it can effectively reduce the content of glucocorticoids in the body, and the side effects of this drug itself are very small. It is currently a relatively safe medicine to help sleep.
   For middle-aged and elderly people who often suffer from insomnia or sleep quality is not good, if you want to improve the quality of life, you can eat some melatonin. However, in the process of using melatonin, it should be carried out strictly according to the dose. Although its toxic and side effects are relatively small, if a large amount of melatonin is used for a long time, it will also have some adverse effects on the health of the body.

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