{"id":207647,"date":"2025-03-02T20:11:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T02:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/repairing-dna-damage-scientists-identify-new-benefits-of-melatonin-supplementation"},"modified":"2025-03-02T20:11:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T02:11:23","slug":"repairing-dna-damage-scientists-identify-new-benefits-of-melatonin-supplementation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/repairing-dna-damage-scientists-identify-new-benefits-of-melatonin-supplementation","title":{"rendered":"Repairing DNA Damage: Scientists Identify New Benefits of Melatonin Supplementation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/repairing-dna-damage-scientists-identify-new-benefits-of-melatonin-supplementation2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A small clinical trial, published in <em>Occupational &amp; Environmental Medicine<\/em>, suggests that melatonin supplementation may help counteract DNA<\/p>\n<p>DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is a molecule composed of two long strands of nucleotides that coil around each other to form a double helix. It is the hereditary material in humans and almost all other organisms that carries genetic instructions for development, functioning, growth, and reproduction. Nearly every cell in a person\u2019s body has the same DNA. Most DNA is located in the cell nucleus (where it is called nuclear DNA), but a small amount of DNA can also be found in the mitochondria (where it is called mitochondrial DNA or mtDNA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small clinical trial, published in Occupational &amp; Environmental Medicine, suggests that melatonin supplementation may help counteract DNA DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is a molecule composed of two long strands of nucleotides that coil around each other to form a double helix. It is the hereditary material in humans and almost all other organisms that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207647","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}