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Good morning and welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition's

midweek segment called Ask a Nutritionist. My name is Brandy Burrow and I'm a registered

and licensed dietitian with nutritional weight and wellness. On today's show, I'll be

answering a question we received from our Dishing Up Nutrition listeners. So today's question is, is there any correlation between melatonin and migraines?

I thought this was a really interesting question, although I'm not completely sure if this

person is curious about whether migraines could be triggered from melatonin or if melatonin could support or prevent a

migraine or treat a migraine. So I thought it would be fun to address both sides of the

question today. So before we get too far into this topic, I just want to give a little background

on what melatonin is. I think many of us are

familiar with melatonin as a supplement to help with sleep. And it's true that melatonin is found in

supplement form, but our bodies actually make their own supply of melatonin. So melatonin is a hormone that is released with increasing darkness.

So once the sun starts to come down and it gets a little darker out, that is when your body typically releases the most melatonin.

And it does play a role in sleep. It's largely involved in scheduling the

timing of sleep. It's kind of like the starting gun for sleep. It triggers the initiation of sleep.

So supplementation could be helpful for people that are having a hard time getting to sleep.

And I think it could be especially useful for people experiencing jet leg or shift workers.

So maybe you're not going to bed at the typical time you're used to or you're not necessarily going to bed when it's dark out.

Those are a couple of scenarios.

I think Militone can be helpful for sleep.

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