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Dr. Matt Walker: The Science & Practice of Perfecting Your Sleep

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The Pineal Glycan Is the Only Source of Malatonin in the Brain and Body

Your brain has a central 24 hour clock called the super csmatic nucleus, keeps internal time. If left to its own devices, nothing that a swiss clock maker would be proud of. It runs a little bit long and laggy, like an american clock sothe're a couple of good American watches. The hormone melotonin essentially tells the brain and the body when it's day and when it's night, and with that, when it's time to sleep, when it'stime to wake. And this is why we'll come on to what those studies of supplementation have taught us.

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