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

[Sequoyah101]

I combine it with various types of cheese before going to sleep. Almost as good as the larium induced dreams I had working in the tropics!

Switching to Malarone was not near as exciting.

[faithhopecharity]

That’s brilliant!
Why didn’t I think of that? I must steady have dementia ?
Smiles
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[faithhopecharity]

Good! I’m glad it works for you.

I’m just cautious about taking meds I don’t absolutely need. If I need one I take it. If I can get by okay without it, I skip it.
Just the old curmudgeon in me I guess.
Smiles.

[Bob434]

bump- thnaks for the post-

[Jamestown1630]

My Grandmother was born in 1890 in the Tidewater of Virginia, and contracted malaria as a kid. She had repeated ‘relapses’ of symptoms for decades.

I came along in the early 1950s, and recall her buying quinine repeatedly when you could still buy it in the stores here. That’s all she knew to do...

[Jamestown1630]

Melatonin isn’t exactly a medication - it’s more like a dietary supplement.

It’s a natural hormone of a certain type that we secrete; but as we age we don’t have as much of it as we did in youth.

It was first suggested to me by a Naturopath, who was generally antipathetic toward ‘drugs’.

[RummyChick]

Low Dose Naltrexone causes very wild dreams. The Dreams are one of the reasons people post about why they quit taking it.

[Jamestown1630]

I’ve never heard of that.

But my FIL used the nicotine patch for a while to try and stop smoking; it gave him such disturbing dreams that he stopped using it, and just quit smoking on his own.

[Cobra64]

Thanks you, I did not know that. 👍

[pollywog]

I need to repurchase some Melatonin. I did use it for a while but didn't need it up until now.

I agree, it doesn't make you sleep all the time for sure. In fact it is VERY MILD and natural.

[pollywog]

I take 10mg of Melatonin along with 5,000 iu of D3 and 50 mg of K2 every night right before bed.

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Why do you take the D3 and K2 right before bed? any specific reason?

[faithhopecharity]

ok thanks very much

i will try it

thank you kindly

fhc

[Cobra64]

Nope. After I brush my teeth, I take the pills. Is that bad?

[Jamestown1630]

You can buy it in several strengths, now; I’d start with 2 or 3 mg., to see how if affects you.

[pollywog]

thanks for this information. I didn’t know about the different strengths.

[pollywog]

Nope... not bad at all. Just wondered if there was a particular reason you took the Vit D3 at night.:-)

[crosdaddy]

Hopefully you’ve just eaten, as it is a fat soluble vitamin.

[Chicory]

Thanks for this information. I have been taking it in the morning and may or may not eat breakfast. I will start taking them with fat.