{"id":667,"date":"2021-03-25T12:26:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T12:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stop-depression-info.com\/blog\/?p=667"},"modified":"2021-04-05T12:26:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T12:26:21","slug":"melatonin-and-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stop-depression-info.com\/blog\/melatonin-and-depression\/","title":{"rendered":"Melatonin and depression"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It is known that hormones affect&nbsp;various processes of the body&#8217;s functioning and&nbsp;its general condition.&nbsp;The idea of \u200b\u200bthe&nbsp;biochemical causes of various kinds of&nbsp;mental disorders is&nbsp;supported by many medical researchers.&nbsp;So, the hormone melatonin (or the sleep hormone), which is responsible for&nbsp;the sleep and&nbsp;wakefulness cycle, at its low rate can&nbsp;cause insomnia, which entails&nbsp;a decrease in&nbsp;stress resistance&nbsp;, rapid fatigue, low concentration of attention,&nbsp;which, subsequently, may cause&nbsp;depression.&nbsp;Melatonin is a derivative of the&nbsp;hormone serotonin, whose quantitative changes can affect&nbsp;mood and&nbsp;appetite (its lack contributes to the appearance of neuroses, eating disorders).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During&nbsp;seasonal changes,&nbsp;due to&nbsp;changes in the length of daylight hours, the amount of hormones may vary.&nbsp;Melatonin is actively released in the&nbsp;dark, dissipates in sunlight.&nbsp;In&nbsp;summer hormones in&nbsp;its amount regulated with the&nbsp;expense of short periods of night, at&nbsp;the&nbsp;same time in the&nbsp;autumn and winter period, the number of melatonin is increased, which can contribute to poor health, dizziness and&nbsp;reduce body temperature, giving rise to&nbsp;the fall of depression.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In&nbsp;animals, melatonin affects the&nbsp;regulation of the hibernation period, the degree of activity, thus, for&nbsp;winter, the animal&#8217;s body gradually prepares itself for a&nbsp;state of long rest.&nbsp;In&nbsp;accordance with&nbsp;this, the human body also slows down its processes, which affects the&nbsp;degree of activity and the&nbsp;need for&nbsp;rest.&nbsp;In&nbsp;general, the human body has fully adapted to&nbsp;such changes in hormonal balance, but&nbsp;there are people who are sensitive to&nbsp;such changes.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Seasonal depression, or seasonal affective disorder, becomes for them a form of manifestation of seasonal changes in the amount of melatonin, expressed&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>in the&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>following symptoms:<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>&nbsp;drowsiness;<\/li><li>&nbsp;apathy;<\/li><li>&nbsp;decreased concentration of attention;<\/li><li>violation of appetite;<\/li><li>&nbsp;Bad mood.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In&nbsp;connection with&nbsp;this,&nbsp;seasonal depression&nbsp;is treated by the use of&nbsp;light therapy&nbsp;, which involves&nbsp;subjecting artificial light on&nbsp;human.&nbsp;Also, frequent walks on a&nbsp;sunny day are&nbsp;recommended&nbsp;, if&nbsp;possible, spending a winter vacation in&nbsp;southern countries.&nbsp;In drug treatment, various groups of antidepressants are used, which help to regulate the production of melatonin, as&nbsp;well as increase serotonin.&nbsp;It is necessary to understand that the synthesis of one hormone can lead to a&nbsp;deficiency of another, or if the melatonin level is low, the production of&nbsp;serotonin&nbsp;may also be low&nbsp;, this in&nbsp;practice demonstrates the connection between depressive disorder and&nbsp;sleep disorders.&nbsp;The regulation of hormone levels can also occur&nbsp;naturally, if&nbsp;certain foods are&nbsp;consumed in&nbsp;sufficient quantities.&nbsp;For the regulation of melatonin, foods containing complex carbohydrates are needed: bananas, milk, rolled oats.&nbsp;To increase serotonin levels, it is recommended to consume: nuts, seafood, seeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is known that hormones affect&nbsp;various processes of the body&#8217;s functioning and&nbsp;its general condition.&nbsp;The idea of \u200b\u200bthe&nbsp;biochemical causes of various kinds of&nbsp;mental disorders is&nbsp;supported by many medical researchers.&nbsp;So, the hormone melatonin (or the sleep hormone), which is responsible for&nbsp;the sleep and&nbsp;wakefulness cycle, at its low rate can&nbsp;cause insomnia, which 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