Word: pineal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that the body produces less melatonin as it grows older to make extravagant claims about its antiaging properties. They write that ingesting small amounts of melatonin will allow people to turn back the clock and live 120 years or more. Their evidence? An experiment in which Pierpaoli transplanted the pineal glands of old mice into young ones, and vice versa. The glands of the younger animals seemed to rejuvenate the older ones. The younger mice who had received the old glands, by contrast, aged rapidly and died prematurely...
...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...
Four: Some scientists have revealed that most whites are unable to produce melanin because their pineal glands are often calcification or non-functioning. Pineal calcification rates with Africans are five to 15 percent, Asians 15 to 25 percent and Europeans 60 to 80 percent. This is the chemical basis for the cultural differences between Blacks and whites...
Israeli scientists have found that giving elderly insomniacs melatonin -- a hormone produced in the human pineal gland, which regulates sleep cycles -- dramatically improves their chances of getting to sleep. It also seems to work for people whose insomnia is caused by Alzheimer's disease and other brain disorders...