Youthing Question for Duncan

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I have noticed something odd over the past month or so. I am now

needing less melatonin than usual. I used to take over 10 mg of

Melatonin a night. Now I mostly take 3 mg, sometimes with an

additional 3 mg booster if I can't get back to sleep after I break

sleep to use the toilet. From all that I have read, there seems to

be a concensus that melatonin production decreases with age. So why

is mine seemingly increasing?

Pregnenolone, Resveratrol, and Pycnogenol are the only 3 recent

additions to my supplement regime, and from what I can discern from

google, none of those supplements should be increasing my body's

ability to make melatonin.

So I began to look for a dietary connection. According to

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melatonin, no food has been shown to

increase plasma melatonin levels.

Encyclopedia of dietary supplements

[ By M. Coates

http://books.google.com/books?id=Sfmc-fRCj10C & dq=Lerner+melatonin+history & source\

=gbs_navlinks_s]

Melatonin can increase by taking psychoactive drugs, but I have not

used anything like that since 2001.

So why is my need for melatonin supplementation going down over the

past few months?

The only guess I can make right now is that whey+Selenium makes for

more glutathione levels. And high glutathione levels is good for

vitality at an advanced age.

Duncan, can you think of things I may have missed?

Alobar