523: Melatonin 101: Anxiety, Sun Exposure, and Sleep Disorders

Beauty Bytes with Dr. Kay: Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon™

Kay Durairaj, MD, FACS @beautybydrkay

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4.9 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Earplugs, blindfolds, or milk before bed time-if these can’t help you get a good night’s rest, you might turn to for help. But is this really the best way to solve your sleeping issues? That said, you might want to understand the mechanism behind melatonin before jumping into any impulsive decisions. Tune into this week’s Five Minutes Friday to discover the secrets behind melatonin on the market!

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0:00.0	Well, hello, hello, guys, you're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K, Secrets of a Plastic
0:19.8	Surgeon, and it's time for a five-minute
0:21.9	Friday. I am tired this week and I'm debating taking some melatonin and you know me. I got to read
0:31.0	more about everything I do. So I looked up some information on melatonin. I thought it was super
0:36.3	fascinating to understand more about
0:38.9	this really potent molecule and actually how it impacts us in so many ways with anti-aging,
0:45.4	with so many of the cycles of the body, the hormone cycles, with jet lag. So I'm going to talk to you
0:50.5	a little bit of met melatonin, and you're going to know more than you ever wanted to know
0:54.4	but this is so exciting sleep is such an important problem and according to the CDC the use of melatonin
1:02.0	sleep aids is so popular with more than 3 million people using them that was back in 2012 I would say
1:08.0	it's more like 50 million people chronically take melatonin supplements right now.
1:13.3	And if you're part of this group or you're considering melatonin for sleep, it's important
1:18.1	to really understand it. Remember, this is a hormone. In humans, melatonin is produced mainly
1:24.8	in the pineal gland and a small portion in your retina. And the synthesis and release of melatonin is produced mainly in the pineal gland and a small portion in your retina and the synthesis
1:29.3	and release of melatonin is stimulated by darkness remember melatonin is the chemical expression of darkness
1:36.3	it's inhibited by light so when you get light information brought into your retina it transmit transmit to the pineal gland, and the sympathetic
1:46.1	nervous system senses that. During daylight hours, you get so much stimulation to your retina from
1:52.7	light. If you're an indoor dweller, you're always under fluorescent lights. Your levels of melatonin
1:58.5	are not going to be as good as people who are outdoors.
2:01.6	There was a study in Finland that evaluated two groups of rodents and looking at either
2:07.0	natural or fluorescent lighting. In this study, one group received fluorescent lighting and the other
2:12.7	group received natural sunlight. And both groups had the same amount of daily sunlight.
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