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hey guys I’m back in this video we’re

going to talk about the pine Neil Glen

it’s a very interesting clan

it actually has optical tissue and

that’s probably because there’s a

connection between your eyes which is

the the retina which is part of your

brain extending into your eye it’s nerve

tissue it goes right into this little

gland and it produces a hormone called

melatonin you can buy melatonin at the

health food store or the drugstore to

help you sleep I don’t recommend taking

it because it’s a hormone and anytime

you take something like that over a

period of time it will then cause the

pineal gland to be dependent on this and

you’ll need more and more to create the

same effect

what is melatonin do it actually turns

into serotonin it helps you sleep it

also is involved in something called the

adrenal access which is kind of the

adrenal pathway from the hypothalamus to

the pituitary down to the adrenal gland

so there’s this whole kind of a feedback

loop that’s involved in the triggering

of adrenal hormones so during illnesses

your immune system is affected by

melatonin probably why you want to sleep

when you get sick okay melatonin is also

involved in your mood it’s also involved

in stress when you’re deficient in

melatonin you have a weakened immune

system that’s why it’s really dangerous

not to get a good night’s sleep for a

period of time it can set you up for

being susceptible to all sorts of immune

problems you potentially get insomnia

have anxiety and have a decreased

estrogen progesterone

Rachele now as you age melatonin

decreases if your medications especially

antidepressants it can really mess with

melatonin but melatonin is triggered by

darkness there’s been a study done that

indicated that if you keep your light on

an hour at night let’s say between 11

and 12 and you try to go to bed your

melatonin is diminished by 71% so to

improve sleep what you want to do as

you’re whining down for bed is turn the

lights way down keep it dim very very

important also aerobic exercise that’s

low intensity lots of oxygen

long walks very beneficial to help your

sleep I personally find that I can do an

aerobic exercise and it really helps me

sleep but you have to make sure you

don’t over train because overtraining

will keep you from sleeping as well so

keep your lights dim low EMFs what is

that electromagnetic frequencies okay so

this thing right here don’t sleep with

it right by your head don’t have

electrical equipment around your bed

that can affect your quality of sleep

stress is a big inhibitor for the pineal

gland so you definitely don’t want to

watch certain things before you go to

bed you know terror movies action movies

or even the news you want to watch

something maybe a comedy just keep your

stress low so you definitely want to

limit the caffeine as well during the

day because that could also affect the

output of melatonin and melatonin peaks

at 2:30 a.m. in the middle of the night

which is interesting because this is the

point where cortisol is at its lowest

point so again that stress can

inactivate this hormone right here

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