# Sleep, Melatonin and Nighttime Healing

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2109392881777549710
- Source account: [@BarbaraOneillAU](https://x.com/BarbaraOneillAU)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:08
- Published: 2026-10-12
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6uq4KLm2XK72/en/sleep-melatonin-and-nighttime-healing

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6uq4KLm2XK72/en/sleep-melatonin-and-nighttime-healing) Within 48 hours, there was no sign of Alzheimer's or dementia.

[0:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6uq4KLm2XK72/en/sleep-melatonin-and-nighttime-healing?t=3) Wow. That was an easy fix. It's not always an easy fix.

[0:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6uq4KLm2XK72/en/sleep-melatonin-and-nighttime-healing?t=7) Yeah. So the, it, it's different But there are times where the brain needs to regenerate and heal the most.

[0:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6uq4KLm2XK72/en/sleep-melatonin-and-nighttime-healing?t=13) It does. And those hours you're talking about, uh, with, with lack of sleep, your body cannot regenerate and heal- No, that- ... if you're not getting rest ... that is right. So there's not only the cleaning system, but melatonin.

[0:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6uq4KLm2XK72/en/sleep-melatonin-and-nighttime-healing?t=24) And melatonin's very interesting- Mm ... because melatonin is released by our gut flora.

[0:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6uq4KLm2XK72/en/sleep-melatonin-and-nighttime-healing?t=29) Yeah. So we're getting back to the gut again.

[0:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6uq4KLm2XK72/en/sleep-melatonin-and-nighttime-healing?t=32) Yeah. So the melatonin is released between, say here's summertime, 10:00 PM and 3:00 AM.

[0:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6uq4KLm2XK72/en/sleep-melatonin-and-nighttime-healing?t=38) Mm-hmm. In the wintertime between 9:00 PM and 2:00 AM.

[0:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6uq4KLm2XK72/en/sleep-melatonin-and-nighttime-healing?t=42) Melatonin's called the fix and rejuvenate nighttime hormone.

[0:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6uq4KLm2XK72/en/sleep-melatonin-and-nighttime-healing?t=45) So it's melatonin that's responsible for the increase in healing, regeneration in those early hours before midnight and just after midnight. It's getting back to proper sleep.

[0:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6uq4KLm2XK72/en/sleep-melatonin-and-nighttime-healing?t=58) But also, you gotta have your lights out, you gotta have all technology out of your bedroom. You gotta have an open window