The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
The pineal makes other things besides melatonin it also makes a peptide called epithalamion from the pineal especially early in life and that's associated with various anti-inflammatory effects on other cells and tissues in the body and it does appear to be able to adjust tiir length which is a feature of cells that's thought to be associated with the longevity of cells or how long they live
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we know that as we age the amount of melatonin that we release is decreased such that if you look in babies and teens Etc melatonin levels are very very high compared to people of middle age and of elderly age likewise epithalamion levels decrease with time and as a consequence markers of tissue inflammation also increase as we age because you're sort of removing this anti-inflammatory compound that's released each night