On 3 Jan 1997 s3e0101 at lrz-muenchen.de wrote:
>messager at jouy.inra.fr (Sophie Messager) writes:
>> >phis at sprynet.com (James Howard) wrote:
>> >>I recently had the occasion
> [snip]
> ..........>>of melatonin should releive daytime fatigue and sleepiness.
> >>
>> >What you describes seems to me to be a typical placebo effect !!! I am
> >currently completing my PhD on the effect of melatonin on reproduction. I
> >known this hormone very well, and I can say that melatonin is a hypnotic
> >hormone.
> [rest deleted]
> Hi,
> I'm quite ready to believe it's a placebo effect, but melatonin did
> help me with my daytime drowsiness quite significantly. Could it
> be that there are good and less good placebos and that their effect
> is partly due to the "non-placebo" side of them?
>> Greetings, A.R.Friedels3e0101 at sunmail.lrz-muenchen.deNo, it is more likely simple opponent-process. Ron Blue