X-Message-Number: 4857 From: Peter Merel <> Subject: Be careful with those pills ... Date: Sat, 9 Sep 1995 01:52:17 +1000 (EST) Doug Skrecky writes, > ......My present position on this issue can be summed up in a > question to cryonicists: Do you currently take melatonin, chromium > picolinate and deprenyl? Last I heard on sci.life-extension, deprenyl isn't necessarily useful unless you're fifty and older, and even then I think the jury is out - but perhaps the wiser heads here can confirm or deny. As to melatonin, be careful. The mel. studies that showed life extension properties in rodents supplemented to match a youthful mel. profile - just popping an OTC mel. supplement won't do that at all. In fact supplementing mel. in a naive fashion might actually work to suppress average levels of the hormone generated by your pineal and gut, which might make you age faster ... better, I think, to get a doctor to gauge your present levels and wait until there's a good time-release version of the stuff. A supplier of time-release mel. was mentioned recently on s.l-e, and I can post the mention here if people think it's appropriate. Chromium picolinate, though, sounds like lovely stuff. Only problem I have with it is that I can't get it OTC in Australia. Nor mel. either, I think. But wonderful results have come out of the CR experiments, and that's something the Australian government hasn't figured out how to legislate against. Yet. -- Internet: | Accept Everything. | http://www.usyd.edu.au/~pete/ | Reject Nothing. | Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=4857