Melatonin—the hormone that regulates our sleep cycles—could be a successful treatment for Covid-19 and halve the risk of catching the virus in the first place.
The hormone affects many of the body’s processes that are affected by the Covid virus and is likely to be a viable treatment. It also protects against the virus: it reduces the risk by 30 percent in some, but this rises to 52 percent among African Americans.
The hormone was among the likeliest new approaches to treat the virus when researchers from Cleveland Clinic ran a ‘big data’ sweep that included health records from the clinic to identify common symptoms of Covid infection.
They discovered a close affiliation between autoimmune, pulmonary and neurological disorders and Covid reactions, and identified more than 30 drugs that could be successful therapies, with melatonin near the very top.
(Source:: PLOS Biology, 2020; 18: e30000970)
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