Jonathan Jarecki

And when you take a photo with an infrared camera,

infrared with the camera basically turns out to be white, right?

And it looks like there's just a bunch of snow everywhere.

It looks on these trees.

It looks like the trees are filled with snow because it's reflecting all of this infrared light.

And with it reflecting the infrared light, our bodies are able to absorb that infrared light, again, interact with our mitochondria, produce this subcellular melatonin,

which then acts as an antioxidant against free radicals that your body is producing, and in our modern world, producing too much of it, and we can see better health outcomes.

So I think that a lot of the health outcomes we see in these studies that we're talking about with red and infrared light potentially could be from this melatonin being produced in the mitochondria and basically helping out the mitochondria, the stress that's on the mitochondria with our daily living.

Yeah, it's something that most people have not heard of, right?

This idea that melatonin is an antioxidant.

And I really think that people, that we need to, of course, the idea that melatonin is a sleep inducing molecule is very, like, it obviously is.

But we have held so strong on that belief in melatonin is just a sleep-inducing molecule that we've sort of forgotten about and we haven't paid attention to this other side of melatonin that potentially is even more important, right?

So really interesting stuff.

And I do want to say...

Theoretically, there's no evidence for this as far as I know, but moonlight also reflects a lot of near infrared light.

And if we think about this evolutionarily, we were sleeping outdoors under moonlight, getting infrared light even when we're sleeping.

Interesting thing there that at night, potentially in our evolutionary past, we were probably not only getting melatonin

bathing our brain at night, which also acts as an antioxidant at night, but we're also getting melatonin in every single cell of our body, restoring our mitochondria health and aiding in that repair process that occurs at night.

So melatonin, yes, sleep-inducing molecule, but also has strong effects during the day in response to infrared light.

Yeah.