#008 Sleep, Daylight Anchoring, and Effects on Memory & Obesity with Dan Pardi
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Melatonin Regulates Metabolic Processes in the Body
Melatonin is a hormone and it controls over 500 genes in the body. It's shutting down certain metabolic processes, which are important for other ones to be turned on at certain times. In mice when you engineer them to get breast cancer, they're resistant to traditional chemotherapy treatment during their nighttime cycle. Blind people who make more melatonin have twice less cancer incidents than those that don't.
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