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.

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