{"id":207304,"date":"2025-02-26T16:03:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T22:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/taking-melatonin-can-help-lower-the-risk-of-cancer-for-some-who-use-the-sleep-medicine-scientists-say"},"modified":"2025-02-26T16:03:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T22:03:55","slug":"taking-melatonin-can-help-lower-the-risk-of-cancer-for-some-who-use-the-sleep-medicine-scientists-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/taking-melatonin-can-help-lower-the-risk-of-cancer-for-some-who-use-the-sleep-medicine-scientists-say","title":{"rendered":"Taking melatonin can help lower the risk of cancer for some who use the sleep medicine, scientists say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/taking-melatonin-can-help-lower-the-risk-of-cancer-for-some-who-use-the-sleep-medicine-scientists-say2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/news\/world\/americas\/doctors-warn-children-given-melatonin-b2105340.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"> Taking melatonin<\/a> could help night shift workers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/news\/health\/cancer-risk-tips-weight-loss-exercise-b2688465.html#:~:text=%E2%80%9CMaintaining%20a%20healthy%20weight%20and, steps%20to%20reduce%20cancer%20risk.\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> avoid cancer<\/a>, researchers said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from North Carolina and British Columbia say the sleep supplement could be a \u201cviable intervention strategy to reduce the burden of cancer\u201d among that group, boosting the body\u2019s ability to repair damage to their DNA caused by their irregular sleep cycle and disruption of the body\u2019s circadian rhythm that regulates physical and behavioral processes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis trial is the first of its kind to evaluate the impact of melatonin supplements on oxidative DNA damage among night shift workers,\u201d they wrote in a study published Monday in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/oem.bmj.com\/content\/early\/2025\/01\/21\/oemed-2024-109824\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><em> Occupational &amp; Environmental Medicine<\/em>.<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking melatonin could help night shift workers avoid cancer, researchers said Monday. Researchers from North Carolina and British Columbia say the sleep supplement could be a \u201cviable intervention strategy to reduce the burden of cancer\u201d among that group, boosting the body\u2019s ability to repair damage to their DNA caused by their irregular sleep cycle and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207304","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}