{"id":165590,"date":"2023-06-11T21:24:18","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T02:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/melatonin-for-cancer-patients-is-it-safe"},"modified":"2023-06-11T21:24:18","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T02:24:18","slug":"melatonin-for-cancer-patients-is-it-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/melatonin-for-cancer-patients-is-it-safe","title":{"rendered":"Melatonin for cancer patients: Is it safe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/melatonin-for-cancer-patients-is-it-safe2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve ever struggled with insomnia, you\u2019ve likely heard of melatonin. This nutritional supplement has been widely available in drug stores, health food stores and grocery stores for years, and touted as a natural sleep aid. It even comes in doses meant for children.<\/p>\n<p>But what is melatonin? And is it safe for cancer patients to take during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdanderson.org\/treatment-options.html\" target=\"_blank\">treatment<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>We checked in with pulmonologist <a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.mdanderson.org\/profiles\/saadia_faiz.html\" target=\"_blank\">Saadia Faiz, M.D.,<\/a> for answers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve ever struggled with insomnia, you\u2019ve likely heard of melatonin. This nutritional supplement has been widely available in drug stores, health food stores and grocery stores for years, and touted as a natural sleep aid. It even comes in doses meant for children. But what is melatonin? And is it safe for cancer patients [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}