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Circadian Rhythmicity: Retinol (Vitamin A) & Caffeine and Their Effects on the Central & Peripheral Clocks of the Body

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Image 1: Is it a bad idea to "wake yourself up" with a pot of coffee in the morning, I mean from a circadian rhythm perspective? In the last installment of this series we have been dealing with breakfast. Now, if you are following the mainstream advice neither of the two subjects of this installment should actually be a staple of it. Vitamin A, in its active form, retinol, is "bad and dangerous" and only present in such "evil cholesterol laden foods" such as eggs. And since coffee will sure give you a heart attack, you better stick to your calcium fortified orange juice , a minimal amount of white water , ah.. I mean low fat "milk" (learn more about the difference between white water and milk in " Mutant Milk!? New Research Fuels the Flames on Hushed Up Concerns About Ill Health Effects of Homogenized Milk ") and - of course - " healthy cereals ". And while you will hardly be able to argue that skipping a breakfast like t...
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Supplemental Melatonin Protects Against Alzheimer's and Has The Highly Desirable "Side Effect" of Reducing Body Fat Percentages by More Than 50%!

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Image 1: If you don't want your brain to shrivel up like that, I suppose you better get more than just an occasional night of good night's sleep and (not or) think about taking some supplemental melatonin. Those of you who are also following me on facebook , will probably have seen the link to the study a group of Indian scientists conducted to assess the effect of melatonin supplementation in overiectomized (=model for human menopause) rats ( Baxi. 2011 ). Much to my own surprise, the melatonin supplement did not only eradicate all the majority of overiectomy-induced metabolic changes, it was also more potent than the standard estrogen treatment that served as a control! And that in the absence of any of the side-effects of regular estrogen therapy. In that, the Baxi study is only one out of a handful of recently published paper, which suggest that melatonin is probably one of the most underrated supplements you can still (as soon as the FDA realizes what this stuff can...
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