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21. Dr Jack Kruse: Critical Role of Light in Human Evolution, Health & Chronic Disease

Regenerative Health with Max Gulhane, MD

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The Leptin Melonocord Pathway in the Eye

Leptin is essentially a hormone made by our fat cells, but can you underneath our skin and the way I think about it is that it basically helps our body signal how much energy is on board the vessel. So God or evolution put leptin underneath our sub q fat to inform our hypothalamus that it needs to make more melanin to actually mature our brain postnatally. That's the thing that defines the human mammal. That's not what defines the chimp. When he found this pathway in the eye called the leptin melonocord and pathway in that it stimulates palm see, and it has huge effects in the hypothalamus. He was like okay well where is melanin in this

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