Michael Greger

In a Harvard University study, the diets of nearly 1,000 women were analysed before their morning melatonin levels were measured. Meat consumption was the only food significantly associated with lower melatonin production, for reasons that are as yet unknown.

American Author

Harley Pasternak

The blue light emanating from our cell phones, our tablets and our laptops is playing havoc on our brain chemicals: our serotonin, our melatonin. It's screwing up our sleep patterns, our happiness, our appetites, our carbohydrate cravings.

Canadian Author

Jane Seymour

Get over jet-lag quickly. I think a lot of people waste the first few days sleeping in the wrong time zone. Sometimes I take melatonin but at other times a glass of wine will do it.

English Actress

Most of us know that the hormone melatonin helps regulate our sleep. But it also seems to play another role - suppressing cancer growth.

Melatonin is often discussed in relation to improving sleep or treating sleep disorders like insomnia.

Sleep Aid

Melatonin plays a key role in synchronizing the body's internal clock, particularly the sleep-wake cycle.

Body's Clock

Melatonin is naturally released in the dark, so it's often associated with nighttime and the absence of light.

Nighttime Hormone

 will ultimately make your insomnia and your sleep difficulties worse, rather than better. Even melatonin will only increase your sleep quality, or what we call your sleep efficiency, by just a few percent. Thankfully, however, there is a much more effective, drug-free approach

How to deal with your...

 and signals from the environment telling us it's dark outside. The rise in sleep-inducing chemicals, like adenosine and melatonin, send us into a light doze that grows deeper, making our breathing and heart rate slow down and our muscles relax.

What would happen if you...

 it communicates what's happening in the outside world. The hypothalamus then halts the production of melatonin, a hormone that triggers sleep. At the same time, it increases the production of vasopressin and noradrenaline throughout the brain,

How does your body know...

 hormone of darkness simply because melatonin tells your brain and your body that it's nighttime and that it's time to sleep melatonin is naturally produced by your brain and it's released by a very small gland deep within your brain

What is melatonin -- and...

 The next tip is darkness. We are a dark-deprived society and, in fact, we need darkness specifically in the evening to trigger the release of a hormone called melatonin. And melatonin helps regulate the healthy timing of our sleep.

6 tips for better sleep...

 have driven sleep into extinction they have evolved to admit a blue light that is remarkably similar to daylight humans attracted by the light soon find themselves mesmerised but the lights suppresses the production of melatonin a

Circadian Blues PIPE...

 Around the time of puberty, teenagers experience a delay in their biological clock, which determines when we feel most awake and when we feel most sleepy. This is driven in part by a shift in the release of the hormone melatonin.

Why school should start...

 think that they are a little bit like us I don't see why there wouldn't be this weather makes us feel sort of down and lethargic and I think that's got to do with sunlight and its effect on vitamin D and melatonin and other

Safari Live - Day 372 PIPE...

 and a rate of tumor growth. You might be wondering how normal light could possibly impact cancer rates. It likely all comes down to the super important hormone called melatonin, which we have evolved over millions of years

The problem of light...

 actually a sleep inducing chemical at least so far looking at the data it's a sleep timing hormone so it helps us regulate when the brain is told to go to sleep to think of melatonin your to