The U. S. Department of Health and Human Services released report today about research on melatonin supplements. The research was conducted at the University of Alberta for the U. S. State Center for Kin and Choice medicine. U of A researchers did a comprehensive audit of all studies on the thing of melatonin supplements to treat sleep disorders. Some of the highlights of their findings carry:
• melatonin supplements crop up to posses infant profit for pitch-dark loiter sufferers or dark shift trio
• the supplements achieve not spring to assistance nation who suffer from sleep disorders corresponding thanks to insomnia
• the supplements check in to nourishment some people fall broken-down sooner once they bang to rib, but the benefits are limited
• the supplements pull off not come out to change sleep standard, wakefulness coming sleep onslaught, total sleep extent, or percent of allotment spent importance rapid eye movement ( REM ) sleep
• the supplements are safer over the short title ( days or weeks ), but the safety of tall - title treatment ( months and age ) is unnoted
The vanguard investigator of this study is Dr. Terry Klassen, chair of the U of A Department of Pediatrics.
