What is in sleeping pills that causes you to feel tired?
Friday, November 25th, 2011 at
6:08 pm
I’ve taken sleeping pills sometimes and I’ve always wondered what was in the pills.
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Different medicines have different ingredients. Benzodiazepines are one class of chemicals that help induce sleep, although they have many side effects and are becoming less popular. Another option is melatonin, a sleep hormone which your body produces on its own to fall asleep. Other chemicals, called melatonin agonists, activate your body’s melatonin receptors without using melatonin itself. There are many other types of chemicals as well. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnotic for more info.