Download e-book for kindle: Ma Vie en Noir: Fifty Years with Melatonin and the Stone of by Daniel Pedro Cardinali

I wrote this booklet steered via the overpowering hope that arises in the direction of the tip of existence to recapitulate the previous. My aim used to be to summarize my adventure of working towards technology on the finish of the 20 th and early twenty first centuries in Argentina, a rustic positioned far-off from the world’s prime clinical facilities. within the ebook, I summarize the intricacies of the pineal gland (“the stone of madness”) as old, mystical and clinical entity and its access in modern drugs with the outline of melatonin. I additionally think of how being linked to an unexplored topic at first of his clinical occupation affects the lifetime of a scientist all through their whole existence. this present day we all know that during people pineal melatonin is published on a daily basis overdue within the night, and there's facts that it's the set off for the sleep procedure. however the most enjoyable element of melatonin is that it's a substance that's found in all residing creatures, from unicellular organisms to vegetation and better mammals, a incontrovertible fact that evinces its significance for all times. extra, the neuroprotective motion of melatonin grants to be an important for the keep an eye on of neurodegenerative ailments we are facing as an endemic during this century. The discoverer of melatonin, Aaron Lerner, dependent its identify on melano, the Greek note for black, as a result of its impression at the pigment cells of the outside. As in "La vie en rose", the immortal Edith Piaf track written in 1946, my lifelong paintings with melatonin may perhaps good be known as "Ma vie en noir".