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Article: Melatonin bandwagon gets crowded
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 10, 1995
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To some, like neuroscientist Dr. Richard Wurtman, melatonin may be
"the holy grail of sleep research" -- a natural hormone with a
remarkable capacity to induce sweet dreams without the drug hangover
and other risks of most sleeping pills.
To others, like psychobiologist Dr. DanCQ OrenCQ of the National
Institute of Mental Health, melatonin is a potentially "fantastic
drug for jet lag" because it can reset the brain's biological clock
for time-warped travellers.
To still others, like Virginia endocrinologist Dr. Michael Cohen,
it is "nature's contraceptive," a hormone whose greatest promise may
be as a component of a new birth control pill.
Some even believe it may retard the growth of breast ...