Jonathan Jarecki

So it actually upregulates another key antioxidant.

And then outside of upregulating other antioxidants, it also just acts as a greater antioxidant.

It's able to scavenge more free radicals, more reactive oxygen species.

So for every single melatonin molecule, it's able to scavenge up to 10 reactive oxygen species.

Whereas with other antioxidants, one antioxidant may only scavenge three to five reactive oxygen species, right?

So melatonin is a much stronger antioxidant and it's acting...

within the mitochondria of every cell.

And one of the best ways to increase these melatonin productions, and again, I wanna make sure people understand that this melatonin does not make you fall asleep.

It's happening during the day when you're outside and when you're in and around infrared light.

And so I think this is a good place to sort of say it, how do we get this infrared light?

You can be in direct sunlight, but you can also be under shade.

If you're under shade around greenery, you're getting tons of infrared light.

Why are you getting tons of infrared light?

That is because greenery leaves in chlorophyll molecules in the leaves.

Chlorophyll molecules are the pigment that makes leaves appear green to us.

Chlorophyll

Not only does it absorb UV and blue light, so the shorter wavelengths of light, but it reflects the longer wavelengths of red and infrared light.

So if you take, for instance, an infrared camera.

So Bob Fosbury, he's an astrophysicist, he's a great researcher who's doing some really great stuff in this field.

He has a bunch of really cool photos of greenery, of trees and shrubs.