Whole Health Chicago

The Center for Integrative Medicine

2522 North Lincoln Avenue Chicago, IL 60614

P: 773.296.6700 F: 773.296.1131

Knowledge Base

Welcome to our extensive library of articles on health concerns and ailments, alternative therapies, nutritional supplements, and much more. Please mouse over the letters to get started. We hope you enjoy browsing.

Join Our Health Tip Newsletter

Get advice and recommendations, delicious and time-saving recipes from The Triple Whammy Food Plan, medical news, supplement reviews, and more!

Melatonin for Mild Cognitive Impairment

Click here for the original post.

I doubt the subscription list of the Journal of Pineal Research is significantly beyond the high two digits, but it did contain the following nugget.

In a clinical study, researchers divided into two groups 50 middle-aged and older adults who had reported mild cognitive impairment, also known as brain fog.

The first group took an average of 6 mg of melatonin at night. The second group took a placebo.

In case you’re wondering why this article appeared where it did, your body produces its own supply of melatonin in your brain’s pineal gland.

Back to the study: at the end of approximately one year, both groups were given a variety of psychological tests, for both mental status and depression. The melatonin users scored significantly higher than the placebo groups in all tests, allowing the researchers to conclude that melatonin seemed a safe and reasonable add-on therapy for conditions where cognitive decline was an issue.

Melatonin is readily available at drug stores and we carry it here. Please be aware, however, that melatonin causes sleepiness and thus should be taken only at bedtime

Print Friendly Print Get a PDF version of this webpage PDF