Melatonin is a peptide hormone secreted in the brain (mostly) and regulates sleep (for the most part). Sunlight acts on the retina to actively suppress its synthesis during the day, and the gradual loss of sunlight and this loss of suppression causes a spike near night which facilitates...

There have been some trends in the last year or two towards Nootropics, supplements catered to brain health and enhancement. It is a field of research based in preventing cognitive decline in the elderly and perhaps reversing or alleviating some disease states (Alzheimer’s, Dementia, etc.)...

The other day I woke up to an exciting new Monday morning. I love Mondays since I get to choose any supplement in the whole wide world to research and put onto Examine.com. At least to me, this is like a kid waking up in a candy store without the knowledge of what ‘diabesity’ is; pure...

Pharmacy (the study of drug metabolism) and Nutrition (the study of food and its biological effects) may seem like two different fields, and save for some common threads they mostly are. Both fields study molecules in the body and how they affect the body, but from different ends of a...

A Panacea, according to the first semi-reputable website in Google (which happens to be Wikipedia) is a term used “to represent any solution to solve all problems related to a particular issue”. In medicinal terms, it’s used to refer to a medicine that does everything and does everything...