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Using Light (Sunlight, Blue Light & Red Light) to Optimize Health

Huberman Lab

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Is Melotonin a Good Hormone?

There are now data to support the fact that animals of all kinds, including humans, will seek out mates and engage in mating behavior more frequently during the long days of spring and summer. The first mechanism we could easily map to melatonin is suppressive to various aspects of the so called gonatl axis. But there's a second biological pathway that operates in parallel to the light suppression of melotone. It provides a basis for longer days, inspiring more desire to mate and more mating behavior.

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