Melatonin Benefits, Dosing To Avoid Grogginess + Side Effects REVEALED | Deanna Minich

Fri, 15 Aug 2025 21:59:25 +0000

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Let’s talk about melatonin benefits! In today’s episode, my guest and I discuss why melatonin is so powerful and much more than just a sleep aid. Its potential for regulating your body goes far beyond sleep, given that it’s produced in your skin and your gut.

There are unfortunately many misconceptions about melatonin. In fact, “Is melatonin bad for you?” is the most common question I’m asked whenever I suggest melatonin.

A common concern is that you can become addicted to it if you take melatonin supplements, wrecking your body’s ability to produce it naturally.

Let me ease your mind: If you’ve been convinced that this melatonin side effect is real – you’ve been duped.

And during this episode, you’ll discover WHY this claim is not only false, but physically impossible.

My guest, Dr. Deanna Minich, has extensively studied melatonin benefits to uncover its hidden potential to transform your health. She is a nutrition scientist, educator, and author, with over twenty years of experience in academia and in the natural product industries, currently serving as Chief Science Officer at Symphony Natural Health. Dr. Minich has been active as a functional medicine clinician in clinical trials and in her own practice (Food & Spirit™).

LINKS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
• Work with me - http://bit.ly/workwithme-yt
• FREE Stop My Skin Rashes Now eGuide - http://www.StopMyRashesNow.com
• Find Dr. Minich online - https://www.deannaminich.com/
• Healthy Skin Show ep. 105: Can Melatonin Help Itchy Skin (So You Can Sleep)? - https://www.skinterrupt.com/105
• Melatonin and brain barriers: The protection conferred by melatonin to the blood-brain barrier and blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier - https://www.sciencedirect.com/....science/article/pii/
• Melatonin as a master regulator of cell death and inflammation: molecular mechanisms and clinical implications for newborn care - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41419-019-1556-7

IN THIS EPISODE:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:53 What melatonin is and how it’s produced in the body
00:05:59 Melatonin benefits as a potent antioxidant
00:07:42 How melatonin supports brain detox during sleep (impacting neurodegenerative disease risk)
00:15:00 Are there interactions between melatonin and medications?
00:17:42 Is melatonin pregnancy-safe?
00:21:18 Where in the body is melatonin produced?
00:27:40 Melatonin dosing tips
00:34:12 Children and melatonin supplements
00:36:57 The 10-3-2-1 equation for healthy sleep
00:40:00 Can melatonin supplements be addictive?
00:42:00 How melatonin is different from other hormones
00:50:26 What foods naturally contain melatonin?
00:56:55 Final thoughts
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ABOUT JENNIFER FUGO, MS, CNS:
Jennifer Fugo, MS, LDN, CNS is a clinical nutritionist empowering adults who’ve been failed by conventional medicine to beat chronic skin and unending gut challenges. Because she’s overcome a long history of gut issues and eczema, Jennifer has empathy and insight to help her clients discover missing pieces and create doable integrative plans.

She holds a Master’s degree in Human Nutrition from the University of Bridgeport and is a Licensed Dietitian-Nutritionist and Certified Nutrition Specialist, and is the host of the Healthy Skin Show.
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