Tag: melatonin

Melatonin’s safety paradox: effective sleep aid undermined by unregulated product quality

Melatonin is clinically effective for sleep disorders, but unregulated supplement manufacturing in the US creates quality control gaps that undermine…

The Melatonin Myth: Why Taking a Pill Misses the Biochemical Picture

Most people treat melatonin as a simple sleep replacement, but your body synthesises it through a four-step biochemical pathway dependent…

Melatonin’s antioxidant role in muscle health: what the evidence shows

Melatonin, known for antioxidant effects in the brain and gut, may also protect skeletal muscle through mitochondrial signalling pathways. Animal…

Night shift workers may benefit from melatonin’s DNA repair properties, early study suggests

Preliminary research suggests melatonin supplements may help night shift workers restore DNA repair processes disrupted by circadian rhythm disturbance. The…