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#328 BITESIZE | Do This Every Morning to Boost Your Energy and Improve Your Sleep | Dr. Andrew Huberman
Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
The Master Circadian Clock
When you look at sunlight, especially early in the day, there's a special class of neurons, nerve cells in the back of the eye called intrinsically photosensitive cells. These were discovered by David Berson at Brown University and others. They have literally sent a wire that we call an axon to your hypothalamus which resides over the roof of your mouth. The master circadian clock also has a name, the suprachiasomatic nucleus. It acts as a conductor for all the cells of your body, from your liver to your brain cells, every cell. And it starts sending out signals to coordinate those clocks.
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