Ultra-Pure Melatonin Product Helps Maintain Sleep for Up to 7 Hours

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Ultra-Pure Melatonin Product Helps Maintain Sleep for Up to 7 Hours

June 11, 2017 by Gail S Thornton

Ultra-Pure Melatonin Product Helps Maintain Sleep for Up to 7 Hours

Curator: Gail S. Thornton, M.A.

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The role of melatonin is important in regulating natural sleep and wake cycles. Typically, melatonin levels decline with age, significantly decreasing after age 40. An estimated 50 to 70 million Americans are affected by sleep difficulties – a process regulated by melatonin — and long-term sleep deprivation has been associated with negative health consequences, including an increased risk of diabetes, hypertension, heart attack, stroke, obesity, and depression.

Clinical data from a new pharmacokinetic study suggests that REMfresh^®, the first and only continuous release and absorption melatonin (CRA-melatonin), helps maintain sleep for up to 7 hours. REMfresh^® contains 99 percent ultra-pure melatonin and is sourced in Western Europe, a factor that is significant and important to many sleep specialists.

Three research abstracts on the REMfresh^® data were published in an online supplement in the journal, Sleep, and were presented recently at the 31st Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies LLC (APSS).

Image SOURCE: Photograph courtesy of Physician’s Seal^®.

How REMfresh^® Works

REMfresh^® (CRA-melatonin) mimics the body’s own 7-hour Mesa Wave™, a natural pattern of melatonin blood levels during a normal night’s sleep cycle.

The study demonstrated the continuous release and absorption of 99 percent ultra-pure melatonin in REMfresh^®(CRA-melatonin) was designed to induce sleep onset and provide continuous, lasting restorative sleep over 7 hours.

The scientifically advanced, patented formulation, called Ion Powered Pump (IPP™) technology, replicates the way in which the body naturally releases and absorbs melatonin, unlike conventional melatonin sleep products.

Since REMfresh^® (CRA-melatonin) is not a drug, there is no drug hangover.

Image SOURCE: Diagram courtesy of Physician’s Seal^®.

Data Based on Scientifically Advanced Delivery Technology

According to the primary study author, David C. Brodner, M.D., “These study results represent an unparalleled breakthrough in drug-free, sleep maintenance that physicians and patients have been waiting for in a sleep product.” Dr. Brodner is a sleep specialist who is double board-certified in Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery and Sleep Medicine and is the founder and principle physician at the Center for Sinus, Allergy, and Sleep Wellness in Palm Beach County, Florida.

Dr. Brodner said, “Melatonin products have been used primarily as a chronobiotic to address sleep disorders, such as jet lag and shift work. The patented delivery system in REMfresh mimics the body’s own natural sleep pattern, so individuals may experience consistent, restorative sleep and have an improved quality of life with this drug-free product.”

Study Findings With REMAKT™

The study findings are based on REMAKT™ (REM Absorption Kinetics Trial), a U.S.-based randomized, crossover pharmacokinetic (PK) evaluation study in healthy, non-smoking adults that compared REMfresh^® (CRA-melatonin) with a market-leading, immediate-release melatonin (IR-melatonin).

The study found that melatonin levels with REMfresh^® exceeded the targeted sleep maintenance threshold for a median of 6.7 hours, compared with 3.7 hours with the leading IR-melatonin. Conversely, the levels of the market-leading IR-melatonin formulation dramatically increased 23 times greater than the targeted levels of exogenous melatonin for sleep maintenance and had a rapid decline in serum levels that did not allow melatonin levels to be maintained beyond 4 hours.

Additional analysis presented showed that REMfresh^® (CRA-melatonin) builds upon the body of evidence from prolonged-release melatonin (PR-M), which demonstrated in well-conducted, placebo-controlled studies, statistically significant improvement in sleep quality, morning alertness, sleep latency and quality of life in patients aged 55 years and older compared with placebo.

REMfresh^® (CRA-melatonin) was designed to overcome the challenges of absorption in the intestines, thereby extending the continual and gradual release pattern of melatonin through the night (known as the Mesa Wave™, a flat-topped hill with steep sides). There was a faster time to C_max, which is anticipated to result in improved sleep onset, while the extended median plateau time to 6.7 hours and rapid fall-off in plasma levels at the end of the Mesa Wave™ may help to improve sleep maintenance and morning alertness.