Vegetable melatonin or phytomelatonin

In recent years the interest in melatonin and its physiological functions has expanded, in fact, it has been discovered that melatonin, initially considered as a hormone restricted to vertebrates, is an ubiquitous molecule, present in organisms belonging to phylogenetically very distant taxa. The melatonin molecule seems to have been evolutionarily conserved, its…

Melatonin as a regulator of harmony

If, as Descartes argued, the pineal gland is the seat of the soul and melatonin is formed by the pineal gland by syllogism we could imagine that the same soul is formed by melatonin. This imaginative analogy makes us understand how important and fundamental melatonin is for man and for the life of animals and plants ...