Melatonin, also known as melatonin, is one of the hormones secreted and synthesized by the brain pineal body during sleep. So what are the effects of melatonin? What are the side effects of taking melatonin? Let's have a look.
Effect and function of melatonin
1. Anti tumor
Melatonin can inhibit the DNA mutation induced by some carcinogens, and promote the formation of leukocytes, which also has a certain significance in anti-tumor. Especially for breast cancer, the effect of melatonin will be more obvious. Because breast cancer is closely related to one's work and rest habits. If one's circadian rhythm is disturbed, it is often reversed day and night, and it is easy to get breast cancer. The secretion of melatonin has a circadian rhythm, which can help the human body better adapt to the circadian changes, so as to achieve the role of prevention and auxiliary treatment of breast cancer.
2. Improve sleep quality
Melatonin can shorten people's sleep time before going to bed and improve our sleep quality. For those who love insomnia, melatonin supplementation is also very useful for improving insomnia symptoms. Melatonin can obviously shorten the time of falling asleep, deepen the state of sleep, and prolong the time of deep sleep, so as to improve the quality of sleep.
3. anti aging
Melatonin has obvious anti-oxidation effect, can help the human body clear free radicals, protect cell structure from free radicals damage, can also reduce the content of peroxides in the body, can protect cell structure, has the effect of delaying aging.
4. Enhance immunity
Another important role of melatonin is to promote the synthesis of lymphocytes and release cell media, which can increase the number of lymphocytes and eosinophils, and also enhance immunity.
What are the side effects of melatonin
1. Melatonin is a hormone that is good for human body. If you take melatonin for a long time, you will have mild anxiety symptoms. If you take melatonin for a long time, you will stimulate the nerves in the brain and the body will have mild anxiety symptoms. Therefore, you must be more careful.
2. The improper use of melatonin may cause the side effects such as hypothermia, dizziness and drowsiness, depression, depression, etc. it may also cause the endocrine disorder of human body, and cause the side effects such as female infertility and male sexual dysfunction.
3. Taking too much melatonin will lead to the decrease of the concentration of thyroxine and adrenaline in the human body, which will lead to mental depression, drowsiness and fatigue, and cause sleep disorder, thus affecting the normal secretion of melatonin.
The above is about the introduction of melatonin, I believe you have a certain understanding of the efficacy and side effects of melatonin after reading. The side effects of taking melatonin are due to long-term and large-scale use. If you take it in moderation, there will be no side effects mentioned above.
