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Using Light (Sunlight, Blue Light & Red Light) to Optimize Health

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Melotonin - A Transducer of Light

Melotonin is a transducer. It's a communicator of how much light, on average, is in your physical environment. And because light shuts down melotone in production, what you'll find is that the duration of melotone, and release from the pineal is much short. What this means is, for people living in the northern hemisphere, you're getting more meloton in release in the winter months than you are in the summer months.

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