>> anyone know why you can't buy Melatonin over the counter in the UK??
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The latest story to emerge in Saturday's "Finanical Times" is that the
Medicines Control Agency has issued a fiat to all retailers that they
must cease selling Melatonin within 14 days.
The agency admits that it has no evidence that Melatonin is unsafe, but
has simply declared it to be a medicine and that it requires the usual
run of expensive and time consuming tests before it can be offered to
the public for consumption. Most suppliers are expected to comply
as they can't risk entanglement with such dangerous people as the MCA.
No suppliers will submit the hormone to be tested as the high cost
cannot be recovered from sales as it is unpatentable.
The FT said that the MCA were concerned at suggestions that Melatonin
may be extending maximum lifespan. Consumption has increased
substantially following the publication of books and magazine articles.
I suggest it is possible that the UK government are concered as to the
pension and elderly care implications if maximum lifespan is extended
without any comparable extension of good health.
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Best to search for facts that back the comments quoted above.
In the past I managed to disrupt my sleep cycle with plenty of physical training. Melatonin helped me balance that again.
I still ocassionally use it, especially when I'm up late to supply what my body cant that night. (light counters the production of melatonin)
See this article covering a recent study done on Melatonin and one possible negative effect.
02.07.2005 - Popular supplement melatonin found to have broader effects in brain than once thought
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