Hey gang, got a new interview for you today with Dr. Russell Ryder. Dr. Ryder is a professor of

cell biology with four honorary MD degrees and one honorary doctor of sciences degree from

international universities. His lifetime, lifelong research is on melatonin he his papers have been cited more than

a hundred and seventy three thousand times in medical literature and scientific

literature he's the co-editor of melatonin research and the founder and past

editor of the journal of Pineal Research.

So Dr. Russell Ryder is one of the world's foremost experts on melatonin. He might be the

number one guy. As far as I can tell, he's the number one guy. So Dr. Ryder, thanks for taking

the time to talk with me about melatonin. My pleasure, obviously.

I've been doing a long time, so I'm interested.

Well, I've seen several of your lectures, and I've learned so much from you,

and I think there's so much about melatonin that people do not know and even many doctors and scientists do not know and things that I imagine you have discovered in your career.

And so I will get to those things, but I'd love to start with your back story.

How did you get into melatonin research?

Well, if you really want to hear it, it is an interesting story.

I do.

Melaton was discovered in 1958 by Dr. Aaron Lerner, a dermatologist.

I, of course, that's the year I graduated from the university, and during my

early career as a graduate student, one of the fellow students gave a lecture on Melaton.

It had just been discovered. I recall leaving the lecture and say, that is a subject on it, I will never work.

Well, two years later, while in the military, there was an emphasis on long-distance space travel because of the Sputnik that had been launched in 1957.

Already the U.S. was thinking in 1964, when I was a captain in the medical service store,

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