Research suggests supplementing with zinc may help improve sleep quality, while magnesium helps activate your parasympathetic nervous system, which helps the brain and body relax before you fall asleep ( Magnesium appears to help regulate melatonin, a hormone that regulates your sleep-wake cycles, and bind to gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) receptors, which plays a role in slowing down nerve activity ( An 8-week study in 43 people with insomnia found that taking the combination of zinc, magnesium, and melatonin before bedtime improved sleep quality and reduced the time to sleep, compared with placebo treatment ( May support immunity Zinc, magnesium, and vitamin B6 have properties that may help support immunity
This process is particularly important within the liver, where glutathione contributes to Phase II detoxification pathways and helps protect cells from oxidative injury during normal metabolic activity
Thus, LAB are attractive riboflavin producers having the potency to extend their biosynthetic capacity by modern biotechnology methods (Thakur et al., 2015)
Therefore, the underlying biochemical mechanism for this effect remains to be investigated
