Melatonin Linked to Prostate Cancer Risk

[xchrom]

http://www.livescience.com/42708-melatonin-prostate-cancer-risk.html

Men with higher levels of the sleep hormone melatonin may be less likely to develop prostate cancer, a new study suggests.

The research also revealed that men who had higher levels of melatonin in their urine had a 75 percent decreased risk of advanced prostate cancer, compared with men with lower melatonin levels.

"It's notable that we found a stronger association between melatonin levels and more advanced prostate cancer," said study researcher Sarah Markt, a doctoral candidate in the department of epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston.

People's melatonin levels are affected by the amount of sleep they get, and the quality of that sleep. The hormone is produced in the brain by the pineal gland in response to darkness.

[TM99]

1. Excellent news.

However, I think it might be good to change your title from Melatonin Linked to Prostate Cancer Risk, which makes it sound like the use of melatonin will 'increase' prostate cancer risks, to Melatonin Linked to Lower Prostate Cancer Risk, which is what the studies have actually discovered.

[Hestia]

2. Agree about the title verbiage

My DH & I use melatonin when our sleep patterns are disrupted. Crazy dreams, mon