#025 Dr. Satchin Panda on Time-Restricted Feeding and Its Effects on Obesity, Muscle Mass & Heart Health
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How Does Melanopsin Change Your Circadian Clock?
Melanopsin is a cell that senses light and in diurnal organisms like us, it tells no there is light, you should not sleep, you should stay awake. It also indirectly connects to part of the brain that produces melatonin which is the sleep hormone. So when we have a lot of light for a very long period of time, then it starts down melatonin. But during daytime, in the morning when we wake up, we need that big jolt of light for melanopsin to really activate. And suppress the melatonin,. And reset the clock and turn on hundreds of genes in the SCN. All these little changes happen throughout the day that are on this rhythm
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