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The Circadian Edge: Dr. Satchin Panda on How to Optimize Your Health and Performance with Your Inner Clock

The BluePrint with Dr. Erik Korem

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What's the Difference Between Melatonin and Sleep Deprivation?

Dr. Panda: We don't really know the long-term effects because these studies are really difficult to do would it be wise to make sure that we're taking care of our environmental factors and other behavioral factors first clear all that out before somebody would consider this yeah another thing is we don't know how much melatonin our brain actually needs but I had seen people who can take half a milligram of melatonin and that will knock them down they'll feel super sleepy and they can sleep right away. And then I have seen people who need 10 milligrams of melatonin  it doesn't do it so the part is your sensitivity to melatonin is very personal personalized should be

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