{"id":88,"date":"2008-12-16T18:49:43","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T01:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glossary.ultimatefatburner.com\/melatonin.php"},"modified":"2015-02-12T21:13:07","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T02:13:07","slug":"melatonin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/melatonin\/","title":{"rendered":"Melatonin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Also known as N-acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine.\u00a0 A hormone produced by the pineal gland.\u00a0 Melatonin is best known for its role in regulating sleep and circadian rhythms. <a href=\"http:\/\/benthamscience.com\/journal\/index.php?journalID=rpemisamples\/emi1-1\/Tom%e1s-Zapico.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Melatonin also acts as an antioxidant<\/a>, and\u2014interestingly enough\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jissn.com\/content\/4\/1\/14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">may increase the exercise-induced production of growth hormone<\/a>\u00a0when taken in supplemental form.<\/p>\n<p>See\u00a0&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/vitamins\/melatonin-information.html\" target=\"_blank\">Melatonin Information and\u00a0Side Effects<\/a>&#8221; for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also known as N-acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine.\u00a0 A hormone produced by the pineal gland.\u00a0 Melatonin is best known for its role in regulating sleep and circadian rhythms. Melatonin also acts as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[267,488,648,682,768,879],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}