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Good Night's Sleep Important to Prevent Cancer

  • October 03, 2003

How well you sleep can seriously alter the balance of hormones in your body. This can disrupt the sleep/wake cycle, also called the circadian rhythm. A disrupted circadian rhythm may influence cancer progression through shifts in hormones like melatonin, which the brain makes during sleep. Melatonin belongs to a class of compounds called antioxidants, which suppress damaging free-radical compounds. With a disrupted circadian rhythm, the body produces less melatonin and the cell's DNA...