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Melatonin and COVID-19: May mean the difference between life and death

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As of March 2024, there are more than 16 published clinical studies of melatonin for treatment and prevention in COVID-19 and the results are promising even when it's given as a late treatment.     On the last day of 2021, Melatonin Research published a  research commentary  discussing an  October 2021 study by Hasan et. al ., which found melatonin significantly lowered mortality when given to severely infected COVID patients. According to the authors: “In a single-center, open-label, randomized clinical trial, it was observed that melatonin treatment lowered the mortality rate by 93% in severely-infected COVID-19 patients compared with the control group. This is seemingly the first report to show such a huge mortality reduction in severe COVID-19 infected individuals with a simple treatment. If this observation is confirmed by more rigorous clinical trials, melatonin could become an important we...

Broccoli Stalks Disease and Tumors Like a Guard Dog

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Science has proven time after time that food is potent medicine. Broccoli, for example, has a solid scientific foundation showing it's one of the most valuable health-promoting foods around. While it contains several health-promoting compounds, one of the most widely studied is sulforaphane. The cancer-fighting properties of sulforaphane are perhaps the most well-known, but it has also been shown to benefit your heart and brain, boosting detoxification 1  and helping prevent and/or treat high blood pressure, 2  heart disease, Alzheimer's 3  and even autism. 4 , 5 , 6  Now, researchers report sulforaphane may also be helpful in the treatment of schizophrenia. 7 , 8 , 9 S_DEREVIANKO / GETTY IMAGES Sulforaphane May Improve Cognition An initial study, 10  published in Clinical Psychopharmacology and Neuroscience in 2015, involved just 10 outpatients with schizophrenia. Patients were given 30 milligrams (mg) of sulforaphane glucosinolate per day for eight weeks. As r...

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