What a fascinating hormone Melatonin is turning out to be.
Over the past decade or so, Melatonin has been investigated for its role in treating cancer, as well as playing a role in its development, particularly with flight crews.
The latter is especially interesting when you consider that Melatonin has often been recommended for jet lag - I personally found it very helpful on my trips to Europe.
A recent Spanish study takes this a step further, and links low Melatonin levels to aging and inflammation.
When I consider how many older people come to me complaining of insomnia, and the number of those who also have inflammatory conditions, and I correlate that with the fact that cancer risk rises as one ages - a little supplementation with Melatonin begins to sound like a really good strategy.
