Item# 2264 Melatonin 3 mg Tablets (60)
Melatonin is the chief hormone of the pineal gland. Melatonin secretion
is naturally suppressed during daylight hours and is stimulated by darkness.
Melatonin is secreted in abundant levels in younger people, but declines
with age, explaining the common occurrence of age related insomnia. By
orally replenishing Melatonin to its youthful level many people find that
insomnia diminishes and sleep patterns return to those of young adulthood.
Melatonin may be one of the most far reaching and gratifying supplements
you can take.
Melatonin can assist you to:
• Sleep more soundly
• Relieve jet lag
• Enhance and/or restore immune function
• Prevent degenerative diseases such as Cancer, Alzheimer's Disease,
and others that are initiated or promoted by oxidative stress
• Extend your life span
• Enhance your intelligence and memory
• Prevent depression, peptic ulcers and even sexual dysfunction
Some of these benefits result directly from Melatonin's role as an antioxidant.
If you could only take one antioxidant supplement, it should be an antioxidant
that can scavenge the body's most damaging free radical, the hydroxyl
(OH) radical. It should also be an antioxidant that can help protect you
against oxidative damage in your brain and in your DNA as well. According
to recent scientific studies with a synthetic version of the naturally
occurring hormone, Melatonin, is that antioxidant.
Melatonin, or 5-methoxy-N-acetyltryptamine, is a hormone produced by
pinealocytes in the pineal gland, located in the center of the brain.
It is a derivative of the amino acid tryptophan.
Melatonin helps regulate sleep-wake or circadian rhythms. Normally, production
of melatonin by the pineal gland is stimulated by darkness and inhibited
by light. Nobel Prize laureate Julius Axelrod performed many of the seminal
experiments elucidating the role of melatonin and the pineal gland in
circadian rhythms.
In recent times, melatonin has become available as a drug and a dietary
supplement. It appears to have some use against insomnia and jet lag.
It has been studied for the treatment of cancer, immune disorders, cardiovascular
diseases, depression, seasonal affective disorder, and sexual dysfunction;
no apparent benefit in these has been found.
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