Melatonin: Ignored in the U.S., Outlawed in Canada.

What company sales rep is out there visiting the physician’s offices proclaiming the conclusive proof that Melatonin can benefit patients with cancer and the many other disorders that it may assist with?  None.  The lack of profit for an unpatented naturally available material causes it to be ignored by the medical community as a whole. 

In the United States, though Melatonin can be found on the shelf of almost any drug store, doctors do not speak a word about its benefits.  The labels on the bottles are required to state that Melatonin is a “product not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent disease.”

There is more scientific evidence that Melatonin can treat, prevent, and even cure more ailments than almost any ‘approved’ prescription drug on the market.

If Melatonin sounds “too good to be true.”  It isn’t.  The truth is in the hundreds of independent studies made by doctors and medical researchers that do not profit from its promotion.  The purpose of their research is to do what they were trained to do:  help people.

Yet the benefits of Melatonin are ignored by governments and pharmaceutical companies alike.

In Canada Melatonin is considered a non-approved drug, and Canadians must buy it in the U.S. to be able to use it in Canada.  Canada customs only allows them to import a three months supply at a time.

When I spoke to a representative at the Health Products and Food Branch about why Melatonin was not approved for use in Canada, he informed me that Melatonin, being a substance that has a natural purpose in the human body, was determined by the government to need further study before approval. 

Further study?  What about over 800 published articles that prove that Melatonin is a proven and beneficial protector against free-radical damage in the body?[1]

It looks like Canada’s approval for a chemical has more to do with multi-national corporate influence than hard science.  MSG, currently approved for unlimited addition to all foods in Canada, has over 1000 studies citing it as a toxin capable of causing obesity and brain cell death.  Even Canada’s own governmental research department admits that MSG stimulates many of the major organs of the body.[2]

Melatonin has not been found to be harmful to the human body.

In a shameful disregard for public safety, Canada has approved known toxins while barring Canadians from a natural substance that has been proven to benefit people suffering from stroke, sleep disorders, high blood pressure, epilepsy, side-effects from prescription drugs, and even cancer.

Instead of offering us cures, Canada’s government has legalized the toxic dumping of sodium fluoride in our water, promoted the addition of unlimited amounts of neurotoxic MSG into our food, offered us formaldehyde (in the form of Aspartame) in our diet foods, and allowed poisonous beef E. Coli into our food and water.

Melatonin and its myriad of health benefits are not available to a single patient in Canada.  Canadian doctors have to turn a blind eye to the hundreds of published scientific studies showing Melatonin’s benefits simply because the Canadian government decided that Melatonin poses more of a health risk than a known poison like sodium fluoride.  While fluoride is a toxic prescription that the government has forced upon us, they will not even allow us the freedom to choose a proven cure.

To err is human, complete idiocy takes a government!