Melatonin storage temperature
David Husk
refrigerate. Another says at room temperature don't refrigerate.
Ideas
Mike Davis
Husk) wrote:
David,
I ran into this also. The tableted form said not to refrigerate, sounded
like a concern over water condensing on/in the product. But I just
couldn't let it take the 95 degree F days so I stuck them in the butter
compartment. My sweg is that if you keep them at 70 F they will not
degrade enough to be of much concern in the amount of time you are going
to have them around. Of course it would be possible to break them down
into smaller containers and amounts, keep them in the fridge and use them
up one at a time. There are as I recall some different forms of melatonin
perhaps some are more stable than others.
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IH>What is the correct storage temperature for melatonin. One company says
IH>refrigerate. Another says at room temperature don't refrigerate.
IH>Ideas
I am very much into good health (50 books in ten years and spend $3000 a
year on nutrients). I always refrigerate before and after I open any
container, except the herbs, if not yet opened I'll keep them in a cool
dry place. One exception that I know of may be hydroponically grown
wheat sprout caplets. Also a new book on melatonin came out about a
month ago. If you have some vitamin C that you don't use very often or
is not yet opened then freezing the stuff would be best.
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Brian Manning Delaney
xdc...@quake.net (Mike Davis) wrote, among other things:
>
>like a concern over water condensing on/in the product. But I just
>couldn't let it take the 95 degree F days so I stuck them in the butter
>compartment. My sweg is that if you keep them at 70 F they will not
>degrade enough to be of much concern in the amount of time you are going
>to have them around.
If you take mel. daily (nightly), yes.
> Of course it would be possible to break them down
>into smaller containers and amounts, keep them in the fridge and use them
>up one at a time.
This is what I do w/most of my supplements. Things like
melatonin, which I use rarely, I actually keep in the
freezer in several small containers, and then have an
"active" container in the fridge. When that runs out, I
"activate" one of the freezer containers.
Condensation/wetness issues aside, cooler means longer
lasting, with all supps. So what I try to do to deal w/the
H2O prob is to buy the packets of some kind of anhydride and
put one in each container. You can get ones that turn color
when they're "full," but I haven't found them yet. I just
put the packets in the oven to dry them out every now and
then, but w/o the color-change there's a little guesswork
involved knowing how long to heat them.
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: Condensation/wetness issues aside, cooler means longer
: lasting, with all supps. So what I try to do to deal w/the
: H2O prob is to buy the packets of some kind of anhydride and
: put one in each container. You can get ones that turn color
: when they're "full," but I haven't found them yet. I just
: put the packets in the oven to dry them out every now and
: then, but w/o the color-change there's a little guesswork
: involved knowing how long to heat them.
Because they are often used to dry flowers, silica gel crystals can often be
purchased at craft stores. The silica gel I bought contains cobalt chloride
which turns from blue to pink in the presence of moisture. I wrap the
silica gel in a paper towel, secure it with celophane tape, and add it to
my regrigerated container. A container of 1.5 pounds of the stuff cost me
$7.79 and should last a lifetime.