Melatonin is normally present in very low concentrations in
blood (pM I think) but with the heroic amounts that people
are taking I would imagine that melatonin could have any
number of effects, possibly not even mediated by the
melatonin receptor. In fact, there was a poster at neuroscience
by Len Niles suggesting that at high concentrations, melatonin
has effects on other receptors.
>In my brief introduction to melatonin, I've heard reports that it
>stimulates growth hormone. Would this allow for any growth after an
>organism's normal growth period, or simply increase the growth rate
>during this period?
>>Dan Komaromi
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