Regular use of melatonin improved the work of cardiomyocytes in old rats, reducing the areas of damage and damage to the heart tissue during the "

Now 5% of men and 3% of women suffer from heart failure, but experts predict that by the middle of the 21st century the figure will be 3 times higher..

Scientists from the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics conducted another study. The subject of the study is heart failure, twelve old rats donated their hearts for the health of mankind. Irina Odinokova, an ITEB employee in Pushchino, said that half of the experimental subjects received a large amount of the sleep hormone melatonin with food.. The choice was not made by chance: this substance is a powerful antioxidant, able to penetrate into mitochondria and protect them from damage.. After a few weeks on a special diet, all the animals artificially caused a heart attack.

Scientists have found that the heart muscle of rodents in the experimental group suffered much less damage during an attack than the cardiomyocytes of mice in the control group, which means that the hormone suppresses the negative consequences after the toxin enters the mitochondria of cardiomyocytes, and protects against heart failure..

Experts explained that to protect the heart, it is not necessary to sleep around the clock, trying to increase the content of melatonin in the body.. It is enough to simply include in your diet foods high in its predecessor - tryptophan, namely bananas, turkey, chicken meat, pumpkin seeds, almonds, soft cheese.

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