Today..... Insomnia again?
Nowadays, insomnia has become an infectious disease, always hear people around me complaining about their insomnia, and then take him as the source of infection, and the people around me also echo ---- I also have insomnia.......
So, not surprisingly, people began to discuss what could help them fall asleep.
Among them, many people will choose to take some melatonin, thinking that taking melatonin can play a role in improving insomnia and improving the quality of sleep, is this true?
Melatonin, what exactly is it?
The so-called melatonin, also known as melatonin, is a hormone secreted by the human body itself, mainly secreted by the pineal gland of the brain, and its main function is to regulate the cycle from sleep to awakening.
Once the brightness of the environment decreases, such as at night or when the light is weak, the secretion of melatonin will increase, which will prompt the body to enter sleep mode.
During the day or when the light is strong, secretion decreases, thereby increasing our concentration and keeping the brain awake.
Can Melatonin Improve Sleep Quality?
Once our human body secretes insufficient melatonin, it can be supplemented by exogenous sources, which plays an auxiliary role in our sleep.
Therefore, it does the following:
First, adjust the circadian rhythm
For people with insomnia at night, or difficulty falling asleep at night, as well as lack of energy and drowsiness during the day, appropriate use of melatonin can shorten the time to fall asleep at night and make people quickly enter a deep sleep state. After waking up during the day, it will also keep people in a more awake state.
Second, regulate the central nervous system
Melatonin is an endogenous neuroendocrine hormone that regulates the function of the human central nervous system. It can also protect nerve cells and has the effect of calming nerves.
Melatonin can also regulate the normal release of hormone from the hypothalamus to achieve the effect of stabilizing the central nervous system. For insomnia caused by depression, anxiety or other mental factors, it has a good improvement effect.
Long-term use of melatonin may make us more and more insomnia the more we eat
For people with sleep problems, some faded black can be taken appropriately under the guidance of a doctor, which can not only adjust the jet lag, but also play a role in regulating the central nervous system.
Proper supplementation of melatonin can indeed assist sleep, but it is not a medical means to treat insomnia, and it will also lead to excessive dreams and low sleep quality.
Long-term use of melatonin can also bring these hazards:
1. Increased risk of stroke
Long-term use of melatonin can easily lead to abnormal constriction of cerebral blood vessels, which will affect the blood supply to the brain and even increase the risk of stroke.
2. Affect the reproductive health of men and women
Melatonin can act directly on the gonads and can reduce various hormones in the human body.
For women, this melatonin can lower estrogen and progesterone levels. For men, it will reduce the male hormones in the male body.
In addition, melatonin will release too much prolactin in the human body, which can easily lead to infertility in women, and will also lead to abnormal development of male gonadal organs, such as decreased libido, and even infertility.
3. It is easy to cause depression
Although melatonin has a calming effect, if it is taken for a long time or in excess, it will affect people's spirit, and it is easy to make people feel sluggish and have a poor mental state.
Especially for men, once the excess or indiscriminate use of melatonin, the probability of depression will be very high.
Melatonin is not a sleeping pill
You know, the reason why sleeping pills can help us fall asleep and play a better sleep state is mainly based on benzodiazepines, non-dinitrogen drugs, and so on.
However, melatonin is a technology secreted by the human body itself, and there is no sleeping pill ingredient, but its role is only used to assist sleep, not a therapeutic effect, and it cannot replace the drug to treat insomnia.
Therefore, if you have a long-term insomnia state and seriously affect your daily life and work, then you still need to find a professional doctor for professional treatment in time.
bibliography:
[LI Feifei, ZHANG Liwei, FU Zongqiang, et al. Analysis and recommendation of registration review and approval status of melatonin-based health food[J]. Food and Fermentation Industry, 2020, 46:283-288.