Preventing diabetes with melatonin

Preventing diabetes with melatonin
A preventive effect is attributed to the sleep hormone also in depression, dementia and even breast cancer
More and more studies suggest that the hormone melatonin is not only the day-night rhythm in humans controls significantly. Recent studies show that sleep hormone may also play a role in depression, diabetes, dementia and even play breast cancer prevention. "The hormone melatonin is for scientists far more than a jet lag or lifestyle funds," says Tony Gnann, CEO of milk Crystals Ltd. The company specializes in the production of melatonin in milk overnight. The following selected research findings on melatonin are summarized.

Diabetes due to low melatonin
Scientists from Imperial College in London have once again shown that there is a link between sleep patterns and diabetes. A new genetic study of over 7,600 volunteers assigned the role of melatonin. Then increase the risk of disturbance of the circadian clock of developing type 2 diabetes. Earlier studies had already concluded that those people are at increased risk of type 2 diabetes risk, working in night shifts. Even people whose sleep was disturbed repeatedly in three nights, got a temporary symptoms of diabetes. Scientists from Imperial College, suggests that mutations in the gene disrupt the melatonin receptor MT2 the connection between the circadian clock and the release of insulin. That could lead to abnormal blood sugar levels - and ultimately to diabetes.

Throttled melatonin production can lead to ulcers
Less sunlight may accelerate, according to a Russian study, the development of gastric ulcers. Why? Scientists have shown that immediately, especially duodenal ulcers associated with the sleep hormone melatonin. Due to low light will not produce enough of the hormone. For a long time has been proven that the gastrointestinal tract reacts, for example in shift workers are particularly sensitive to the rhythm changes.



Melatonin in depression
The World Health Organization estimates that by 2020 depression will be in heart and circulatory diseases are the most widely spread disease. Again, a too low nocturnal melatonin plays a role at times, as a recent Dutch dissertation shows, was conducted in the framework of a randomized clinical double-blind study of people aged 60 years. Then when the patient was found to be more effective light therapy compared to placebo.

Background: Due to the light therapy, patients in the evening is increasingly released melatonin, the sleep which could be improved. The cortisol levels in the morning could be normalized. In this way the patient woke in the morning on fresh, felt better and had enough energy for the day. The changes point to a bright light caused by the improved functioning of the brain-controlled biological clock. Melatonin plays a central role in the whole organism.


Melatonin, and dementia
Scientists from Glasgow have found that people who suffer from Alzheimer's, have a lower melatonin levels than healthy people. This knowledge will make the researchers now for further studies to advantage. It is to be investigated whether the quality of life can be increased from the patient by the addition of melatonin. First results already show an improvement of well-being of patients - perhaps because of the induced by melatonin improved sleep pattern. Among the most common causes of dementia include Alzheimer's, but also other factors that affect the brain can lead to dementia.

Night-light may promote breast cancer risk
The bedside lamp should ausknipsen especially women prefer to sleep. For as Israeli scientists at the University of Haifa have found increased through the nightly illumination of women's risk of developing breast cancer by percentage to 22kHz. This is due to adoption of the researchers interrupted by the light melatonin production. Melatonin is a hormone that controls the sleep cycle and will also have a major impact on the nightly regenerative processes of body cells. Produced but it is only in darkness.

With an incidence of around 10 minutes, the melatonin production shuts down, thus slowing down all other repair processes in the body or inhibited. Damaged cells can be detected in this way can probably not early enough and removed. Other findings from the USA suggest that artificial light may well cause more health problems than previously thought. Sun influences the unnatural light, the quality of sleep. The light principle is, according to Tony Gnann the milk crystals GmbH for the production of natural melatonin in milk overnight to use. Cows received a hand-tryptophan-rich food, as is the amino acid tryptophan, an essential building block for the production of melatonin. In addition, the animals are milked before sunrise. Milk crystal in this way contain more than 100 times as much melatonin as conventional milk.

Restful sleep by melatonin
A special night milk products can lead to a more restful sleep. This is a specialist journal "The food letter - current nutrition" published placebo-controlled double-blind study. This study showed that the efficacy of a milk product with increased melatonin content natively be detected significantly. The Munich-based milk crystals GmbH has developed based on the results of first-night milk crystals. They contain natural melatonin native and can be purchased without a prescription at the pharmacy.

In a placebo-controlled double-blind study of 40 subjects was the efficacy of a milk product thus obtained are shown. The milk product resulted in 73 percent of the subjects in the experimental group after 10 days of taking a more restful sleep. The comparison with the placebo group was using the U-test a highly significant difference (á = 1%). In addition examined effects Fields confirmed the positive effect of the tested milk product in terms of daily activity, the well-being, sleep intensity, day / night rhythm and sleep induction and sleep onset.