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This seems to be the season for wonder-drug books. Even as The Redux Revolution hits the shelves at Barnes & Noble, two other breathless volumes--The Super-Hormone Promise, by Dr. William Regelson and Carol Colman, and The DHEA Breakthrough, by Stephen Cherniske--are promoting testosterone, DHEA and other hormones as medical miracles that can slow or even reverse aging...
...that's nothing compared with what The Melatonin Miracle promises. Its authors, Dr. Walter Pierpaoli of the Biancalana-Masera Foundation for the Aged in Ancona, Italy, and Dr. William Regelson of the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond, have taken the fact 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...
There's only one problem with that explanation, according to Turek. The strains of mice used in those studies do not produce melatonin. So whatever rejuvenated the aging rodents, it wasn't melatonin. "We didn't measure melatonin in the animals," Regelson concedes. "We didn't have the equipment at the time." Still, he dismisses Turek's objections, arguing, "If it isn't melatonin, what...
...either the Soviet Union or several nations of Black Africa. In fact, the delegates were forced to face the question of Soviet repression principally by a gutsy Nairobi-based Christian newspaper, Target, which printed a smuggled plea to the World Council from Moscow Priest Gleb Yakunin and Layman Lev Regelson. The pair complained that the council had made no protest when "the Russian Orthodox Church was half destroyed" in the early 1960s, and pleaded for a crusade against persecution of Christians in the Soviet Union...
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