teas, and screen-free evenings weren’t helping, so Abrams decided to add another element to the nighttime routine: a low dose of melatonin, a hormone supplement that may help regulate the sleep-wake cycle.
Research shows it’s been effective with sleep issues such as jet lag, but not with chronic insomnia. Rob WilsonBut that melatonin worked like magic for her daughter, says Abrams, an integrative family medicine physician and author of the book BodyWise. “As a doctor and a parent, I know we are all suggestible: If the mind believes it will be sleepy, it will be sleepy.”Irina Todorov, MD, an integrative family medicine physician at Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, had a similar experience with one of her patients, who’d suffered from chronic knee.
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