Melatonin: All the benefits + dosing explained simply

One of my favorite supplements!

Melatonin is a hormone in the body primarily produced by the pineal gland in response to darkness. It is known as the hormone of darkness. It is also made by every cell in your body, like the skin, bone marrow, lymphocytes, retina and GI tract.

Melatonin’s benefits are far beyond sleep and it works deeply at a cellular level allowing the cell to make clean and efficient energy. Melatonin is a master antioxidant to the body, much like glutathione is, and has over 5,000 mechanisms in the body.

Melatonin is misunderstood, even in the holistic community, and I will bust some myths in the slides so you can fully understand this great molecule. Maybe it’s so villianized because of how well it works and big Pharma can’t make money off if it?

One of melatonin’s most misunderstood myths is that there is a classical negative feedback loop. A negative feedback loop means when you take something exogenously, the body stops making it naturally. This does NOT happen with melatonin, despite seeing it commonly written. If you take a high dose of melatonin one day, the body makes the same amount of melatonin the next day.

There’s no need to fear how much melatonin you take hindering your body’s ability to make melatonin. Melatonin is made based on sunlight hitting the retina and your melatonin levels are based on the sunlight on the day regardless of the amount of melatonin you take via supplementation. That doesn’t change, there’s no negative feedback loop. (Here is the link to the study showing melatonin doesn’t have a negative feedback loop)

Melatonin Benefits

• antioxidant

• helps brain detoxify

• helps sleep

• combats bacteria

• parasites

• v!ruses

• protects the brain from heavy metals

• found to be promising in the treatment of c@ncer

• reduces inflammation

• helps detoxify mycotoxins

• supports digestion

• calms the bladder wall

• decreases emotional stress

• modulates the immune system

• neuroprotective

• removes free radicals

• improves insulin resistance and balances blood sugar

• supports healthy estrogen levels

• raises glutathione

• reduces histamine

• helps bile production

How to improve your body’s melatonin level without supplementation

Melatonin supplementation should be looked at as a supplement to support the body as an antioxidant. Not as a “cheat” for sleep because you aren’t supporting your circadian rhythm and are trying to biohack your way out of burnout without the necessary lifestyle changes needed.

There are many free ways to support your body’s natural melatonin production:

• Morning sunlight in the eyes

• sunshine, sunshine, sunshine

• No sunglasses outside

• EMF blocking/ WiFi off at night

• Dim lights and use red/ golden light bulbs with the sunset

• Blue blocking glasses when on screens (gold or red lenses when appropriate)

• Vitamins B, Magnesium, Propolis, Reishi and Chaga mushrooms, skullcap

• A consistent sleep schedule

How to Dose Melatonin

Melatonin can be taken in a variety of doses from .25mg up to using supra physiological dosing up to 3000mg and using suppositories. There is no lethal dose of melatonin and melatonin toxicity is extremely rare and mild.

You can use it in microdosing with meals (.25-.5mg) to help with MCAS/ histamine. This can be helpful when living in mold.

It can be taken in medium doses of 2-6 mg for a sleep aid. It is best taken 2-4 hours before bed.

Melatonin can be taken in 10-20mg for neurological and immunological health. Higher doses are best taken around bedtime.

Melatonin can be taken in supra physiological dosing, but this should be done under the care of a physician. Dosing is 100-200mg+.

Taking a binder before bed can help mop up toxins created by melatonin.

What if melatonin makes you feel bad?

This mean you really, really need melatonin!

If you feel tired, wired, dizzy, brain foggy, etc when taking melatonin that means your brain really needs it and there’s probably neuroinflammation.

The melatonin is trying to detoxify your brain and you feel bad because if it. People who negatively react to melatonin are often affected by mold and have brain symptoms like brain fog.

If melatonin makes you feel really wired and not sleepy, that means you need it even more. But with either (especially with the wired one) you need to dose melatonin slow, slow, slow.

Go slower than you think on dosing and work your way up. Start with .5 mg and slowly increase over months to get to a higher dose. There’s no need to push your body or brain too hard just to get the antioxidant benefits. You’ll get there eventually. It took me 3 weeks to get used to .5mg of melatonin but I’m so glad I did! My brain symptoms have improved.

In order to be able to handle melatonin you need to support the cell wall and BodyBio PC is often recommended. Along with other antioxidants like Resveratrol.

It can also help supporting serotonin, which will convert to melatonin. 5-HTP, Tryptophan, and B6.

Here is the link to purchase melatonin supplements