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hi guys I want to talk about melatonin

and the pineal gland okay a lot of

people are taking melatonin for sleep

and what’s interesting is that yes it

does help sleep but there is some

drawbacks number one the pineal gland

inside the brain is an interesting gland

because it contains optical tissue like

eye tissue so it has receptors for light

there’s a whole pathway where light

enters the eye and it goes through a

series of reactions that then end up in

the pineal gland right here so for

physicians watching output down below

the technical part of this so you can

kind of study this if you’re interested

for everyone else you don’t need to know

that all you need to know is that the

light turns off melatonin darkness

stimulates melatonin

it’s an on/off switch okay and it’s in a

feedback loop right here the problem is

that we’re so exposed to fluorescent

lighting we don’t go outside anymore so

it really throws off the circadian

rhythms the the rhythms of sleep because

we don’t get the appropriate melatonin

that’s one problem right there so the

pineal is very sensitive to optical

tissue so the pineal has optical tissue

and it does receive light now here’s the

problem when you take melatonin as a

supplement you’re taking a hormone and

it may work initially but what’s going

to happen it’s like a thermostat you’re

going to give the pineal the hormones so

now it doesn’t have to produce anymore

so anytime you take a hormone the gland

that makes it stops making it because it

doesn’t need to anymore so you’re

basically making the pineal gland go to

sleep that’s the problem with long-term

melatonin I don’t recommend taking

melatonin because it’s a hormone and lot

of people don’t know what they’re taking

away too much so you don’t want to

depend on that now the other problem

with the pineal is that it could become

calcified especially as we age and it

has a lot of receptors for calcium and

fluoride so when they do testing they

find that this thing is like filled with

fluoride and calcium

in calcium and fluoride actually makes

more soft tissue calcium it makes

spurring calcium deposits in the body if

you have too much fluoride and a

calcified pineal gland so a couple

things that you need to do for the

pineal number one you want to make sure

that you go for regular walks okay on a

routine basis you want to get out there

I know maybe some people go to the gym

and work out but it’s really important

to go outside in the light and spend

some time every day that’s going to be

important and number two when you go to

bed at night you know turn it to watch

TV until you fall asleep because the

light you want it completely dark to

start winding down and stimulating

melatonin naturally that’s one thing

number two we want to avoid fluoride

okay in the water in the tap water we

want to avoid fluoride in the toothpaste

okay so you want to avoid that and get a

toothpaste without fluoride because it

can absorb and go into the pineal and

create problems for you the other thing

is you want to take vitamin k2 why

because vitamin k2 handles soft tissue

calcium so it actually improves the

calcification of the pineal make sure

you take it with d3 together I’ll put

some links down below so that’s my two

cents on melatonin so check it out and

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