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#008 Sleep, Daylight Anchoring, and Effects on Memory & Obesity with Dan Pardi

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Melatonin and Sleep

Melatonin is produced in the pineal gland, this multi-synaptic loop. It's not a very strong stimulator for sleep but it's more of a reinforcer that it is in fact dark out. And so it's telling all the clocks within the superchiasmatic nucleus Yeah, it's now nighttime, do nighttime activity. So it'll affect the transcription and a translation, relate activity that's happening.

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