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Melatonin

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Helps you fall asleep faster, stay asleep longer, and reset your body's internal clock.

Melatonin, a hormone produced by the pineal gland, helps regulate sleep cycles and synchronize the body's internal clock. Supplementation can aid in falling asleep and staying asleep, especially as natural production declines with age. It can also help alleviate jet lag and support various other health concerns.

May help with

fall asleep fasterstay asleep longerjet lag reliefregulate internal clockcancer supportreduce chemotherapy side effectsnicotine withdrawal symptomsanti-anxiety treatmentrestorative sleep

Key ingredients

  • Melatonin

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MELATONIN

Fall Asleep Faster, Stay Asleep Longer

Melatonin is made by the tiny pineal gland located in the back of the brain. The pineal gland secretes melatonin at night to help us fall asleep and stay asleep.

As we age, the pineal gland secretes less and less melatonin, making it more difficult for us to enjoy the benefits of a full night’s rest. And nothing will make you feel your age (or older!) than a chronic lack of 7 ½ - 8 hours of restorative sleep.

Melatonin also helps to regulate our internal clocks that tell us when it is supposed to be day and when it is supposed to be night.

If you fly across two or more time zones in a day, your body clock will be out of sync with the new time zone, leading to ‘jet lag.’

To synchronize your internal clock with the new time zone, you can take a melatonin supplement to correspond to your new bedtime and help reduce the length and degree of ‘jet lag.’

At higher doses than would be used for sleep, clinical researchers have also reported that

melatonin supplementation can improve survival in cancer patients (cancers of the breast, lung, kidney, liver, pancreas, stomach, prostate, and brain), reduce the side effects of chemotherapy (including low platelet levels and nerve problems of the hands and feet), reduce the symptoms of nicotine withdrawal in patients trying to quit smoking, as well as be used as a natural anti-anxiety treatment, especially for those undergoing surgery of any kind.