Interesting article linking the beneficial and anticancer effects of melatonin to linoleic acid:
QUOTE: Blask's team determined that melatonin blocks cancer cells' metabolism of linoleic acid, a polyunsaturated fat that's abundant in food. The same team had previously shown that 13-hydroxyoctadecadienoic acid, the product of linoleic acid metabolism, spurs cancer cells to divide. UNQUOTE.
QUOTE: Night-shift workers face fundamental challenges, Blask says. "Melatonin works, to a large degree, by inhibiting the cancer cells from taking up linoleic acid," he says. Cravings for fatty foods frequently assail workers in the middle of the night. As a result, many shift workers consume large amounts of linoleic acid just when their melatonin production is suppressed and unable to protect them from the polyunsaturated fat, he says. UNQUOTE.
SOURCE: http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060107/bob9.asp
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