The Melatonin Miracle
This Overlooked Hormone Holds a Little-Known Secret…
It Protects You from Disease, Boosts Your Bedroom
Performance and Keeps You Younger Longer
If you travel a lot on business, you’ve probably already discovered melatonin. It eases jet
lag and lets you get some precious sleep in those cramped airplane seats. But nature’s
sleep regulator holds another little known secret: It can peel years off your age.
This hormone holds not one but nearly half a dozen age-fighters. They can help you look
and feel younger longer. And melatonin can protect your cells against deadly diseases
like cancer and Alzheimer’s.
Today, I’ll tell you how you can add melatonin safely and easily to your anti-aging
program, and why you should.
The Anti-Aging Supplement that Works Wonders
Your body produces melatonin naturally. It’s the main hormone made by your pineal
gland. This is a tiny, pea-sized gland at the base of your brain. One of the most important
jobs this gland has is regulating your sleep cycle. It works like this: The pineal gland
monitors changing light levels throughout the day and when darkness falls, it excretes
melatonin to bring on sleep.
For decades, travelers have used melatonin to ease the transition between time zones with
great success. But melatonin holds other, more important health-enhancing secrets.
Melatonin is one of the best-studied and most effective anti-aging nutrients available
today. Surprised? Don’t be. For one thing, melatonin is one of the only oral supplements
that stimulates your body’s release of human growth hormone (HGH). This is the
hormone that keeps you looking and feeling young.
When you’re in your twenties, your body produces lots of HGH. But production slows
down as you age. When you reverse this decline, you reverse aging. In fact, studies show
improving HGH levels heightens energy, sexual performance, muscle gain, fat loss, and
skin appearance.1
And melatonin works well increasing HGH levels even at small oral doses.2 What’s
more, when you double the dose, HGH levels double.3 No wonder melatonin increases
lifespan in study after study.4
Melatonin is also one of the most potent antioxidants ever discovered. It destroys diseasecausing
molecules called free radicals at an incredible pace. And it does something most
other antioxidants can’t: It stimulates extra antioxidant enzymes that can protect against
everything from wrinkles to illness.
Bring Your Dying Cells Back to Life
One thing that causes aging and the diseases of aging is the death of cells. Your cells
depend on their energy powerhouses called mitochondria. If the mitochondria are
damaged, you fall victim to conditions like Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease,
even cancer.5 Protect the mitochondria from damage and you keep millions more cells
alive. That means you’ll stay healthy and more youthful.
Melatonin is also quickly gaining a reputation as a cancer killer. In fact, it works so well
at blocking tumors, doctors are already using it to treat cancer. And the results are
promising. Melatonin enhances the effectiveness of other cancer treatments, reduces side
effects of those treatments, and increases survival rates.6
Melatonin may do more than just protect your body from age. Studies show it may
actually reverse it where it matters most: Your brain. (After all, what good is a younger
looking body if you’re not “all-there” to enjoy it?)
Studies have shown that melatonin can reverse aging in the brain tissues of mice.7
Obviously, that’s not the same thing as reversing brain aging in men, but with all of its
other benefits, there’s no reason not to try melatonin—and if it helps keep your brain
young in the process, so much the better.
As you can see, melatonin isn’t something you want to lack. Trouble is, you lose it as you
age.
Trouble Sleeping? Does Your Prostate Have You Getting Up in the Middle of the
Night? Melatonin can Help You Too…
Like Human Growth Hormone, melatonin levels fall sharply as you age. It’s a drop you
can feel. For example, one of the most common complaints I hear from older patients is
that they’re not sleeping as well as they used to. It’s often caused by a deficiency of
melatonin.
And, as a side benefit, just a couple of milligrams will work wonders if you’re suffering
from prostate trouble. Benign prostatic hyperplasia sufferers find they don’t have to get
up and go as often at night when they’re taking melatonin.
Putting Melatonin to Work for You
If you’re over 50, you should think about taking melatonin. There is to date, no evidence
to tarnish its perfect safety record.8
I recommend a small anti-aging dose of 0.5 mg a night. For jet lag, take 1 mg for every
time zone crossed.
If you have cancer, I recommend a much higher “antioxidant dose” of 20 to 40 mg every
night before bed. Of course, be sure to discuss this with your doctor first.
To Your Good Health,
Al Sears, MD
1 Klatz, R. Grow Young with HGH Harper Collins, NY: 1997
2 Forsling M.L., Wheeler M.J., Williams A.J., “The effect of melatonin administration on pituitary hormone
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3 Valcavi R, Zini M, Maestroni GJ, Conti A, Portioli I. “Melatonin stimulates growth hormone secretion
through pathways other than the growth hormone-releasing hormone.” Clin Endocrinol (Oxf) 1993
Aug;39(2):193-9.
4 Maestroni G.H.M., Conti A., Pierpaoli W. “Pineal melatonin, its fundamental rol in aging and cancer in
neuroimmunomodulation: Interventions In Aging and Cancer” Annals of the NY Academy of Sciences 1988
521:140-148.
5 Reiter RJ, Tan DX, Manchester LC, El-Sawi MR. “Melatonin reduces oxidant damage and promotes
mitochondrial respiration: implications for aging.” Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2002 Apr;959:238-50.
6 Lixsoni P. Melatonin and cancer treatment, in: Melatonin on the Promotion of Health by R.W. Watson
CRC. Boca Raton, 1999 pp. 175-190.
7 Okatani Y, Wakatsuki A, Reiter RJ, Miyahara Y. “Melatonin reduces oxidative damage of neural lipids
and proteins in senescence-accelerated mouse.” Neurobiol Aging. 2002 Jul-Aug;23(4):639-44.
8 Dean, Ward M.D. “Melatonin: Unique, Potent Life-Extending Nutrient” Vitamin Research News: Anti-
Aging Supplement Review and Update Part 3, August 2004, p 14.
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