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Article: Beyond sleep: new medical applications for melatonin.(REPORT)
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- Life Extension
- Article date:
- August 1, 2008
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To the surprise of doctors around the world, melatonin is demonstrating life-saving benefits that far exceed its common use as a sleep aid. (1) Increasingly, researchers have shown that melatonin's impressive ability to control oxidative damage in systems throughout the body can reduce the trauma of brain injury, prevent heart muscle damage, offer neuroprotection, increase cognitive functioning, and reduce the toxic effects of chemotherapy while enhancing its benefits. (2-7) Cumulatively, these findings add up to important new roles for melatonin not only in disease prevention but in almost every field of medicine.
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