what is melatonin

Melatonin is a hormone secreted by the pineal gland in the brain. Melotonin helps regultate other hormones and maintains the body's circadian rhtym. Darkness stimulates the production while light suppresses its activity. So sleeping with lights can distrupt it normal activities easly. Young children have the highest levels of the nighttime melotonin. Melatonin is very important also because it has strong antioxidant effects.