Are You Taking Melatonin?

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Are You Taking Melatonin?

- Roger Mason

This column has certainly covered melatonin before in different topics. Our melatonin levels fall from the time we're 18 and keep falling thru life until we have almost none by the age of 70. This is secreted by the pineal (PINE-eel) gland and is the antiaging hormone basically. When you read articles in the media you hear that is helps jet lag and b.s. like that. Melatonin is used to help cure CANCER and other so called "incurable" illnesses. Common sense tells you that if your melatonin level falls as you age you should raise it. You can test this with saliva but you have to do this at 3:00 AM and do it alone. Go to optimale.net to see about a saliva test kit for this.

You can go to any drugstore or health food store and get a 60 tablet bottle of 3 mg melatonin (don't fall for the 300 mcg doses as they are 10 times weaker than 3 milligrams -- a microgram is a millionth of a gram) for about $5. Or most any vitamin catalog. Now go to Canada and you can't get it except thru a doctor and a prescription and a very overpriced pharmaceutical product. Or go to anywhere in Europe and get the same bad deal. America is the only developed country in the world you can buy over the counter hormones like melatonin, DHEA, pregnenolone, progesterone and androstenedione. And most of you readers are not even taking it? What's your problem? Do you want to die early and have a poor quality of life?

Melatonin is miraculous. I love this hormone. It is safe, it is not toxic, there are no side effects, there are countless studies proving how effective it is, it is cheap, and you can buy it over the counter for pennies a day. So, why aren't you taking it if you are over 40?

Want some proof? It seems no matter what disease or condition I study melatonin keeps coming up. Especially the really epidemic diseases like prostate cancer and breast cancer (which are almost identical in cause and cure by the way). Go pick up a book in the public library such as "Your Body's Natural Wonder Drug", "Melatonin Miracle", "Melatonin: The Anti-Aging Hormone", "ABC's of Hormones" and "Stay Young the Melatonin Way".

If you ask that stupid, pompous, know nothing moronic doctor you go to for a melatonin test he won't even know what you're talking about. Plus, how is he going to do an expensive, unnecessary blood test at 3:00 AM? When are you going to realize that your family doctor is an idiot with a huge ego and an endless greed for your money? Use a saliva test for under $40.

You can only take melatonin at night so please do NOT take it during the day.

Mice were given melatonin in their drinking water and lived one third longer than the control mice. You are actually going to live longer, feel better and have a higher quality of life if you simply take an inexpensive OTC supplement you can buy in any drug store. Why haven't you done that? What are you waiting for? You could not buy this five years ago because the technology did not exist for us to synthesize it inexpensively. It was a laboratory curiosity. The reason it is so inexpensive it that you need a mere 10 mg and a 60 tablet bottle has less than a fifth of one gram in it. Wholesale it costs about $500 a kilogram or about 50 cents a gram so that bottle has about a dime's worth of melatonin. Better living thru chemistry as General Electric used to say when I was a kid.

This is a no brainer folks -- go out and buy several bottles of this if you are over 40 and start taking it.