Dr. Abud Bakri

So I'll say epithalon, whoever wants.

You know, we're making the rules today.

So epithalon is also A-A-D-G.

Yes, I think it supports this genetic machinery.

When it comes to the eyes, it seems to be repairing some of the photoreceptors that might get damaged in a retinitis pigmentosa.

Melanopsin wasn't discovered when Cavendish was kicking it around.

But my theory is that epithelon is working on melanopsin.

Interesting.

And that it may be upregulating melanopsin levels and then making that morning sunlight that everyone likes.

to be more effective.

Because the big problem is a lot of people will tell me like, doc, I did morning sunlight, I didn't feel effects.

I'm like, have you had enough darkness to regenerate melanopsin levels?

Because we know that in animal studies, five days of pure darkness dramatically increases the amount of melanopsin in the retinas.

This is interesting.

And I think as a clinician, one of the key things for people to remember is that we've screwed up a lot of times as clinicians through different grotesque abuses of our trust.

We've done, you know, interventions or drugs that weren't the most efficacious.

For example, like in the 1910s to 1940s, we irradiated the thymuses of young kids to prevent SIDS.

This was considered gold standard medicine.

Does it have anything to do with SIDS?

No, they thought that.