Melatonin Regulates Sleep/Wake Pattern of Human Body and Helps Treat Short-Term Treatment of Insomnia
Various companies in Japan are fighting the country’s sleeplessness epidemic. Sleep is one of the most precious gift of nature to mankind. It helps us to go to dream and to remember all our dreams, while it helps us get back on track after a long sleep. As much as we sleep, we can hardly do anything or even nothing at all. The human mind is active during the waking hours, while the body rests in between. This explains why sleep is such an important part of our lives. Melatonin, a hormone of pineal gland, is the master circadian clock. It is also a neurotransmitter, which belongs to the photoreceptor group of the nervous system, in fact it regulates the phase of the human body's circadian rhythm. Instead of the normal rods and cones, melatonin is now a newly discovered class of photoreceptor cells, which directly regulates the light and darkness cycles, thus controlling the secretion of melatonin from the pineal gland. Melatonin regulates the sleep/wake pattern of the human bo...