Melatonin is a hormone made by the pineal gland, a small gland in the brain. Melatonin helps control your sleep and wake cycles. Very small amounts of it are found in foods such as meats, grains, fruits, and vegetables.

Melatonin can inhibit the hypothalamus-pituitary-gonadal axis, reduce the levels of gonadotropin-releasing hormone, gonadotropin, luteinizing hormone and follicular estrogen, and can directly act on the gonads, reducing androgens, estrogens and estrogens. Progesterone content. In addition, MT has strong neuroendocrine immunomodulatory activity and free radical scavenging antioxidant capacity, which may become a new method and approach for antiviral therapy. MT is ultimately metabolized in the liver, and damage to hepatocytes can affect the level of MT in the body.