Thyrotonin for Better Sleep, No Matter Your Thyroid Symptoms

While I’m not always confident in my naming abilities, I think this one came out alright: It’s a combination of ‘thyroid’ and ‘melatonin.’ The reason they are combined is that this supplement can help not only your sleep patterns, but your thyroid, too.

Simply put, tiny amounts of melatonin, in supplement form, can be a good thing. It can improve sleep, regulate immunity, and reduce free radicals. However, many of these benefits go out the window when the dose is too high. When it comes to thyroid-induced sleep issues, you have to keep it small and sweet.

So, how much is too much, and how does this thyroid specific formulation help you? Here’s all the information I wrote for the product monograph of Thyrotonin.

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Thyroid Disease & Dyssomnias

What is a dyssomnia? Quite simply it refers to the collection of sleep disorders that negatively impact the quantity and quality of sleep. These include forms of:

• Nighttime insomnia
• Daytime sleepiness
• Exaggerated sleep requirements

The truth is that both hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism can increase the likelihood of dyssomnias¹.

How does that happen? Well, it turns out that the thyroid gland itself is a source of melatonin². Studies have shown that endogenous melatonin may play immunoregulatory roles that prevent autoimmune diseases such as Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis³.

Among those with thyroid disease, dyssomnias contribute to symptoms including:

• Fatigue
• Brain fog
• Weight gain
• Increased appetite⁴
• Chronic pain⁵
• Irritable bowel symptoms⁶

Does Melatonin Supplementation Help?

Melatonin is the pituitary hormone, largely responsible for your daily sleep cycle. When taken orally, it increases serum melatonin levels similar to the body’s own increase in the night.

Invivo studies have shown melatonin supplementation to have paradoxical effects on thyroid disease. In physiologic amounts it may be protective, but in pharmacologic doses it may worsen autoimmune reactions⁷.

Melatonin exerts its effects when it is absorbed by MT1 and MT2 receptors in the brain. When levels of melatonin in the blood are higher than physiologically normal, this receptor activity diminishes giving melatonin a biphasic response.

Hence, the results of high-dose melatonin may be lower than the results of low-dose melatonin.

This inhibitory effect is more pronounced on adults over 40. In fact, older adults may show the strongest response to melatonin doses in the range of 100-200 mcg⁹. Yet most commercial melatonin products range in potency from 1-5 mg.

What Is Sustained & Immediate Release?

Many popular melatonin products use binding agents to achieve a sustained release effect (a more consistent release over a longer period of time). The rationale is that doing so will mimic the body’s same secretion of melatonin throughout the course of the evening.

Yet, pharmacokinetic studies have shown that immediate release and sustained release melatonin yield the same response over the course of the evening.

Moreover, sustained release has the disadvantage of staying in the bloodstream in the daytime, possibly contributing to feeling fatigued throughout the day¹⁰.

Introducing Thyrotonin

For all of the reasons above, I knew that there had to be a better way to supplement melatonin — specifically for those struggling with thyroid disease.

What I came up with, as part of an entire line of thyroid specific formulations, is Thyrotonin. A supplement that offers the opportunity to do right by your thyroid and your sleep schedule.

What Are The Benefits Of Thyrotonin?

The ingredients found in Thyrotonin have been clinically proven to:

• Decrease sleep onset
• Improve sleep duration
• Improve symptoms associated with jet lag

How Do You Take Thyrotonin?

All you have to do is take one pill at bedtime and away from food. You should use Thyrotonin in conjunction with any medical treatment for acute or chronic dyssomnia.

How Do We Select Thyroid Specific Formulation Ingredients?

This is important. In this case, every single ingredient considered must share the following properties to warrant inclusion…

Thyroid Safety

All considered ingredients must be natural compounds that have been safely consumed by humans for centuries. They must be generally recognized as safe (GRAS) by toxicologists. Finally, they must not contain unsafe levels of iodine.

Evidence & Efficacy

All considered ingredients must have high-quality evidence proving their efficacy. The best quality evidence is that which demonstrates significant positive outcomes, on human subjects, in multiple, double-blinded controlled studies.

Ultimately, these human subjects and the outcomes should be clinically relevant to the product’s end-users. It needs to mean something for them.

Thyrotonin: Ingredients Breakdown

The following is a complete discussion of the active ingredients that can be found in Thyrotonin. It includes their relevance to thyroid disease, their mechanisms of action, and a review of the supportive research…

Microdose Melatonin

What’s the difference between melatonin and microdose melatonin? It’s all in the amounts! Microdose melatonin can be found in amounts measured in mcg, rather than mg.

In fact, in a clinical study, melatonin or placebo was given at nighttime to a group of perimenopausal and postmenopausal women for six months total.

Those taking low-dose melatonin showed significant improvements in thyroid function. Both T4 and T3 levels improved by elevating from their baseline readings¹¹.

In other studies, high-dose melatonin showed no such beneficial effects on thyroid function¹².

The women taking melatonin in the above study also showed an improvement in the secretion of gonadal hormones including estradiol and testosterone.

Melatonin supplementation moved women toward hormonal equilibrium even when they started out differently. The perimenopausal women ages 43-49 saw a beneficial lowering of LH and no changes to FSH. The postmenopausal women ages 50-62 saw a beneficial lowering of FSH.

Participants noted a corresponding decrease of depression and menopausal symptoms.

If you just take more and more, it may get in the way of feeling good in the morning (as well as not helping with other symptoms).

How Should You Take Thyrotonin?

Consider taking one to three capsules, at bedtime, away from food.

What Doesn’t Thyrotonin Contain?

Thyrotonin does not contain any of the following:

• Caffeine
• Stimulants
• Thyroid hormones
• Iodine
• GMO
• Gluten
• Dairy

Thyrotonin: Cautions

The ingredients listed have not been studied in pregnant or lactating women and should be avoided.

Those on thyroid medication may need a reduction in their dosage due to the usage of this product. Please work with your prescriber to monitor your thyroid levels regularly and report any new symptoms or changes to existing symptoms.

Try Thyrotonin Today

Now that you know a bit more about it, how about trying it for yourself? If you’re interested in handling thyroid symptoms while achieving better sleep, then Thyrotonin may be perfect for you.

P.S. Whenever you are ready, here is how I can help you now:

1. Schedule a Thyroid Second Opinion with me, Dr. C, Click Here for Details
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3. Need a Personalized Supplement? Check out My Thyroid Specific Formulations
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5. Check out my podcast Medical Myths, Legends, and Fairytales Here

Dr. Alan Glen Christianson (Dr. C) is a Naturopathic Endocrinologist and the author of The NY Times bestselling Adrenal Reset Diet, The Metabolism Reset Diet and The Thyroid Reset Diet.

Dr. C’s gift for figuring out what really works has helped hundreds of thousands of people reverse thyroid disease, lose weight, diabetes, and regain energy. Learn more about the surprising story that started his quest.