It is believed that when melatonin binds to these receptors, SCN neuronal activity is decreased, slowing brain function and creating the feeling of tiredness
This means that while your body can usually produce enough of it on its own, there are timessuch as during periods of high physical stress, intense exercise, or recoverywhen your bodys demand for it may exceed its ability to produce it
It also appears in peripheral organs and body fluids, suggesting systemic regulatory functions beyond the central nervous system
Renaut and Long, 1989)
Inflammopharmacology, Journal of Physiology - Paris, Current Pharmaceutical Design, Frontiers in Pharmacology (representative journals)
Next, we examined whether livers from liver-specific Gclc KO mice induced an antioxidant response and had alterations in lipids and lipid-generating enzymes as initially observed in whole-body Gclc KO mice