No mention of the antioxidant properties of melatonin or its metabolites. https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/ben/ctmc/2002/0000000... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3614697/ https://www.fasebj.org/doi/abs/10.1096/fj.01-0309fje

Or the fact it also appears to have an effect on mesenchymal stem cells. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1600-079X.... https://stemcellsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10... https://stemcellsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10...

Perhaps this is why its called Beauty Sleep?

I also wonder what effect on the sleep pattern these above affects have in the big picture of sleep?

Best sleep I have had in adulthood was water only fasting for 18days recently. The body seems to know what to do to repair itself, perhaps because ever cell has a copy of our DNA in it. There seems to be some knowledge in this DNA that makes cells know what to be and how to perform its individual cellular role for the bigger picture of being part of a body, a bit like individual humans playing their part in a society.

Some folks in the anti-aging community are taking it daily, not because they have trouble sleeping, but exactly because there seem to be a number of small health benefits of taking melaton8n that are not mediated by better sleeping.

It has also been shown that melatonin improves the efficacy of breast cancer chemotherapy.