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Melatonin shown to improve muscle energy efficiency, offering a potential therapy to combat 'diabesity'
Medical Xpress / University of Granada / Free Radical Biology and Medicine / Antioxidants ^ | March 5, 2025 | Diego Salagre et al

Posted on 03/13/2025 3:44:12 PM PDT by ConservativeMind

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Melatonin can help restore muscle fibers back to normal, including helping them retain calcium—undoing the damage obesity and Type 2 diabetes otherwise does to them.
1 posted on 03/13/2025 3:44:12 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
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2 posted on 03/13/2025 3:44:40 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ConservativeMind

so it is a choice between being strong but asleep all the time
or
being a weakling but awake to take the abuse?

smiles
I gotta think this one over a bit...
smiles


3 posted on 03/13/2025 3:47:46 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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Take it before sleeping and be done with it.


4 posted on 03/13/2025 3:49:22 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: faithhopecharity

I’ve used Melatonin for years. It doesn’t make you ‘sleep all the time’, or make you groggy in the morning. It just helps you to fall asleep.

(Can give you very interesting dreams, too.)


5 posted on 03/13/2025 3:53:54 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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Interesting dreams? I’ve found the opposite. I used to dream coherent stories that I wish I could have written down. Since I began taking melatonin to help me fall asleep two years ago, I’ve almost entirely stopped dreaming.


6 posted on 03/13/2025 4:06:38 PM PDT by jimtorr
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It makes me groggy. I take about .3mg every now and then and although I sleep better, I usually have brain fog and lower energy for 4 or 5 hours after awakening.

My wife takes 5mg with no issues.

7 posted on 03/13/2025 4:07:55 PM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free ( )
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To: jimtorr

I should have added that pistachios are one of the highest natural sources of melatonin. Lately I’ve been eating 10g which helps sleeping without morning issues.


8 posted on 03/13/2025 4:10:11 PM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free ( )
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To: ConservativeMind

BTTT


9 posted on 03/13/2025 4:10:32 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.)
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This is racist. Blacks are born with melatonin right on their body. I have to go buy the stuff and then it may not work. I have the worst luck.


10 posted on 03/13/2025 4:13:34 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Whoever said "out of sight, out of mind" never had a snake disappear in their bedroom.)
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I take 10mg of Melatonin along with 5,000 iu of D3 and 50 mg of K2 every night right before bed.


11 posted on 03/13/2025 4:14:33 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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I’ve used Melatonin for years

I've tried it in various doses and it does nothing for me

12 posted on 03/13/2025 4:22:15 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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I take 10mg of Melatonin along with 5,000 iu of D3 and 50 mg of K2 every night right before bed.


There is remarkable difference in sensitivity to melatonin. To find a tolerable dose (one that induced sleep but didn’t make me feel groggy/depressed/dizzy the next day) I kept reducing my intake to where I finally got to .25 mg (sublingual). That seemed like an absurdly small amount until I read that a young, healthy person produces 10-80 (micro)grams per night internally.


13 posted on 03/13/2025 4:23:18 PM PDT by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: The Truth Will Make You Free

I guess people are different in their reactions to it.


14 posted on 03/13/2025 4:26:17 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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That’s odd. A lot of people complain that it makes their dreams TOO vivid. I’ve always dreamed and remembered my dreams; melatonin just enhances that. Maybe you should try a lower does?


15 posted on 03/13/2025 4:28:09 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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D3 and K2 should be taken with, or after, a meal containing fat. They are fat soluble, and you need to have fat in your gut to assimilate them properly. Don’t wait too long after your meal to take them.


16 posted on 03/13/2025 4:32:43 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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“Blacks are born with melatonin right on their body”

Maybe melanin?


17 posted on 03/13/2025 4:33:13 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: The Truth Will Make You Free

Sometimes before bed I take 1/4 of a 10mg tablet, but not as often as I used to. I connected them to UTIs so cut way back.


18 posted on 03/13/2025 4:38:10 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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LOL!


19 posted on 03/13/2025 4:50:00 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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20 posted on 03/13/2025 4:57:08 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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