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Article: Melatonin: Nature's Sleeping Pill.
- Article from:
- Nutrition Health Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 1995
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In one experiment, a high rate of ovarian cancer occurred among young female mice that received the hormone. Sahelian also note the presence of tryptamine, a hallucinogenic compound, in melatonin, while Reiter mentions that smoking marijuana dramatically stimulates melatonin production in the body. Neither has much else to say about these somewhat unsettling associations other than to observe that melatonin can cause "vivid dreams."
Judging by the amount of evidence accumulating in its favor, it may not b premature to join the melatonin bandwagon. Scientists conducting experiments to find the "lethal dose" level for melatonin "couldn't make a rich enough concentrate ...