Melatonin has shown significant benefits in reducing cardiac pathology, and preventing the death of cardiac muscle in response to ischemia-reperfusion . . .

I wonder if the CDC should tell parents of young children anything, or if they should just keep whistling past the graveyard. https://t.co/dWsOyOOAHN pic.twitter.com/7lLjIbcb3r

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Melatonin has shown significant benefits in reducing cardiac pathology, and preventing the death of cardiac muscle in response to ischemia-reperfusion in rodent species.  Moreover, melatonin may also prevent the hypertrophy of the heart muscle  under some circumstances, which in turn would lessen the development of heart failure.