"Melatonin, menstruation, and the moon"

Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, Feb-March, 2005 by Sari Cohen

References

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2. Greenspan, Francis S. Gardner, David G. Basic and Clinical Endocrinology. New York: McGraw Hill, 2001. 110.

3. Ibid., 173-4.

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10. As quoted in melatonin lecture notes for Dr. John Dye's Endocrinology class (CLSC 813) at Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine, spring 2004

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