Word: melatonin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...WANTS TO BELIEVE IN THE health benefits of melatonin more than Fred Turek. A neurobiologist at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, Turek has devoted two decades of his life to studying this naturally occurring substance produced by the pineal gland. He feels certain that it functions as the body's own safe and highly effective sleeping potion. But lately Turek can't shake the feeling that the world has gone melatonin mad. Based on the flimsiest scientific evidence, the subject of his research is now being trumpeted in books and magazines and on television as a cure for everything from...
...theory is that the light that is transmitted back through the retina causes the production of melatonin," says Catlin. "There is some feeling, although it is not proven, that melatonin can sometimes counteract depression...
...reduction in light, then, leads to a decrease in melatonin production and possibly and increase in depression...
...Performance tests are a math arithmetic test, at least once an hour...Most subjects, we collect urine samples from. We tested for blood levels of cortisol and melatonin...during a constant routine we take blood more than once an hour," he says...
...There are a lot of things other than melanin or melatonin that are crucial [to intelligence]," he said. "Especially one's environment, which [the letter] points...