Episode 249: Sleep and Benefits of Melatonin

Naturally Nourished

Ali Miller RD

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Health & Fitness:nutrition

4.8 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Is your diet, exercise and supplementation honed in but you are still struggling with sleep? Need help falling asleep, staying asleep or both? Curious about our take on melatonin supplementation? Tune in to hear Ali and Becki discuss insomnia trends (heard of coronasomnia?!), benefits of sleep and the risks of not getting the recommended 7-9 hours per night. In this episode, Ali and Becki address all things sleep and discuss the connection between insufficient sleep and all cause mortality (you read that right...death!) as well as disease progression. Learn about the real dangers of screen time, how melatonin can impact DIVOC outcomes and how it actually functions as an antioxidant in the body impacting cardiovascular health, fertility and beyond. Also in this episode: Keto Archive Program - Available for $99 starting 8/1! Apply to Become a Naturally Nourished Ambassador Adrenal Rehab Program - use code ADRENAL99 for $100 off Benefits of Sleep Dangers of Insufficient SleepEpisode 246: Mitochondria, CoQ10 and Myocarditis Updates DIVOC & MelatoninMelatonin a Promising Candidate for Prevention and Treatment of COVID-19 Melatonin administration to wild‐type mice and nontreated NLRP3 mutant mice share similar inhibition of the inflammatory response during sepsis Melatonin protects lung mitochondria from aging Melatonin alleviates acute lung injury through inhibiting the NLRP3 inflammasome Effects of adjective use of melatonin and vitamin C in the treatment of chronic periodontitis: A randomized clinical trial Benefits of MelatoninMelatonin: a well-documented antioxidant with conditional pro-oxidant actions Melatonin Antioxidative Defense: Therapeutical Implications for Aging and Neurodegenerative Processes Role of melatonin in cancer treatment Melatonin boost a key to fighting breast cancer Melatonin in autism spectrum disorders Can I Take Melatonin Every Night?Long-term melatonin treatment for the sleep problems and aberrant behaviors of children with neurodevelopmental disorders - BMC Psychiatry Sleep, Growth, and Puberty After 2 Years of Prolonged-Release Melatonin in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder Long-term effects of melatonin on quality of life and sleep in haemodialysis patients (Melody study): a randomized controlled trial Favorite Supplements for SleepSleep Support 1-2 30 minutes prior to bedtime GabaCalm 1-2 prior to bed or keep on nightstand for night waking Relax & Regulate 1-2 scoops at bed Santa Cruz Medicinals Deep Sleep Capsules - use code ALIMILLERRD Melatonin Serotonin ConnectionB Complex Targeted Strength Probiotic Night Shift WorkAdaptogen Boost Bio-C Plus Neurohormone Panel Lunya Silk Sleep Mask Sponsors for this episode: This episode is sponsored by Santa Cruz Medicinals, makers of potent and affordable CBD with effective dosing. For more information check out www.scmedicinals.com and use code ALIMILLERRD for 15% off your order.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Naturally Nourished Podcast that delivers cutting-edge food is medicine solutions for optimal health.
0:12.7	Ali Miller is a nutrition expert sought up by the media in America's top medical institutes
0:18.3	for her revolutionary functional medicine interventions.
0:22.6	From disease treatment to prevention, every episode will empower you with ways to put yourself
0:28.3	back in control of your health. Please know, the topics discussed are for educational purposes
0:35.1	only. Now welcome, Integrative Dietitians, Ali Miller, and her co-host, Becky You.
0:42.6	Welcome to episode 249 of the Naturally Nourished Podcast. Today, we are talking about one of my
0:49.3	favorite things, sleep. Yeah, I think especially any new mom with their child within one year of age, sleep is what they
0:58.4	dream of.
0:59.6	Yes.
1:00.2	What they would want to be their favorite pastime, but sometimes it just doesn't happen.
1:04.0	Yeah, I remember like the early days with Noah looking at Byron being like, are we ever
1:07.8	going to sleep through the night again?
1:09.5	And now we do.
1:10.5	It's just,
1:10.8	you know, sometimes less hours and less consecutive, but all good. Good. Well, today we are not
1:17.8	talking about sleep in the constructs of being a new mom necessarily. We're going to talk about
1:22.0	various drivers to insomnia, but more so we're going to be talking on up-to-date research with COVID and
1:29.3	melatonin. We're going to talk about the role of melatonin not only as an antioxidant that
1:35.8	promotes restful qualitative sleep, but that also helps with estrogen metabolism,
1:42.7	fertility, overall antioxidant functioning, helping to
1:47.2	scavenge free radicals and reduce oxidative stress in the body, which then lends a hand to
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