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Is It Seasonal Effective Disorder?
Winter is all about rest. Most mammals are either hibernating or they're not even very active for most of the day, maybe 16 to 18 hours a day. December especially in the northern United States and Canada, the northern hemisphere of the globe, it gets very dark. We were at less than eight hours of daylight by the time the solstice hit. All of that darkness affects the amount of melatonin that your body produces so you produce more melatonin than you normally would which makes you feel sleepier than you normally do. So I don't want to call it seasonal effective disorder, it's not a disorder if the body is just doing what the body does in response to a