About Herbs and Nutrition
Echinacea
Ginseng
Ginkgo
Milk thistle
St. John's wort
Saw palmetto
Bay
Bilberry
Black cohosh
Licorice
DHEA
Royal Jelly
Garlic
Ginger
Coenzyme Q10
Lutein
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Best eye nutritions in one tablet.
A visionary product for eyes.
Lutein-6 and
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Lutein helps to protect your over-worked eyes from aging and environmental harms.
Triple G Super Health
Majestic trio of garlic, ginger, and grapeseed extract. What could be better?
Double G Super Power
Ginseng and Gingko biloba together, for sound body and sound mind.
Weight Loss herbal formula
Get in shape herbally, and safely.
Natural Wonder Woman
Three best herbs for women's health.
Milk thistle
Silymarin helps to protect your liver, an over-worked organ.
Saw palmetto
A herb that deters prostate enlargement.
DHEA
The hormone of youth and health.
Coenzyme Q10
Strong anti-oxidant and metabolite that also does your heart good.
Ginkgo biloba
A formula for nutrition, energy, strength, and stamina.
Good Dream
Good sleep is the best medicine.
Herbal Breath
Fundamentally clean and healthy herbal breath.
St John's Wort
Old wisdom care for depression.
Royal Jelly
Natural nutrition for energy, beauty, and youthfulness.
Echinacea
The most popular herb for the colds, flu, and boosting immune system.
Bye Mygrain
Herbs for headaches.
MySerena
Anxiety and nervousness are enemies of health and happiness.
Golden Ener-Z
This may help if you feel weak or are suffering from chronic fatigue.
LaxaColon
Clean intestine, colon means a lot for your health and fitness.
Ginkgo biloba
Natural, leaf formula for brain and eye health.
Hair Million
Herbal formula for hair loss. Be hairy herbally.
HeartPeace
Herbal formula for healthy and stable heart.
FeminiCare
Helps address lady's fatigue and weakness.
FeminiMate
To help address lady's feminine health problems.
HemoStream
For healthy blood circulation.
Stomagic
Herbal formula for stomach health.
Via Vita
Lecithin supplement for health.
PeptiTonic
For stomach comfort.
MegaNutrition
Complete vitamin and nutritional supplement.
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Melatonin:
A pineal hormone that induces sleep.
"Melatonin induces sleep and helps to restore sleep cycles for those with sleep disorders due to age, time shift, and jet lag."
"Good sleep will make you healthier and age less."
What is Melatonin?
Melatonin (N-acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine) is a derivative of tryptophan, an amino acid, and a hormone produced by the pineal gland located right at the center of the brain, and responsible for biological, circadian rhythm of our body. Melatonin was discovered by Lerner et al. in 1958 from bovine pineal glands in search of the amphibian skin-lighting factor. Later studies have found the presence of melatonin in the pineal and the blood during the dark and absence during the light period leading to the conviction that melatonin is a chemical messenger of diurnal cycles and synchronizer of endogenous rhythms. Melatonin has also been found in the full spectrum of animal kingdom, including unicellular algae, brown algae, and in higher plants. Despite the ubiquity, its role in many species including plants remain unknown.
Production of melatonin is light dependent: pineal gland synthesizes more melatonin at night, and less during daytime or under light illumination, while serotonine (5-hydroxytryptamine, or 5-HT), another brain hormone derived from tryptophan, is produced more during the daytime and less at night. Prolonged night time or reduced exposure to light (for example, due to seasonal change or weather) leads to "SAD" (seasonally affected disorder) or "winder blues", a psychiatric disorder accompanied by depression affecting 25 million individuals in the US alone, may be associated with melatonin over-production. Deficiency of melatonin can lead to insomnia, and Parkinson's disease .
The most important role of melatonin is probably the modulation of sleep-wake cycle. Pineal gland is controlled by a paired cluster of nerve cells located just above the optic chiasm in the hypothalamus, the cells called suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) containing the circardian pacemaker. Although the SCN autonomously functions in a cyclical manner (on a 24-hour basis), environmental lighting strongly influences its action through the changes in pineal N-acetyltransferase, the enzyme that converts serotonin to melatonin, thus the production of melatonin. The amount of melatonin synthesis is closely linked to the sleep pattern in mammals.
Melatonin is also an antioxidant, and has shown to exert protective effects against oxidative stresses, suggesting its role as a protectant of cellular aging, especially in the brain. Other evidences suggest roles of melatonin as a protectant of immune system and inhibitor of cancer development. A major consequence of aging is a decreasing number of melatonin-producing cells in the pineal gland, and a decrease in the amount of melatonin secreted by surviving melatonin-producing cells. This phenomenon might be related to a number of degenerative changes associated with aging process, including shortened sleep time.
Pineal gland produces several hormones other than melatonin: small molecules such as epinephrine (adrenaline), norepinephrine (noradrenaline), histamine, inositol, 5-methoxytryptophol, iodinated compounds, pteridines, and taurine; and peptides such as angiotensin I, arginine vasotocin, enkephalins, melanotripins, and lipotropins.
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Usage
Taking 1-6 mg of melatonin orally about 1 hour before desired bedtime is recommended. In order to overcome time shift, larger dose should be taken initially, and reduced dose subsequently.
Taking larger dose has not been found associated with notable adverse health effects.
Taking low dose of melatonin has been shown to lower pressures in the eyes, suggesting that melatonin may be helpful for treating glaucoma, although it has not been scientifically proven.
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