Jonathan Jarecki

And then you're through a series of, you know, chemical reactions and pathways in the brain

your body starts to produce melatonin, and you get sleepy, and then you go to bed.

Now, that is what we've known for many, many years in melatonin research.

Recently, actually, one of the top melatonin researchers, his name is Russell J. Ryder, he was actually one of the researchers who sort of first discovered that your body produces melatonin at night to help you fall asleep.

He's now understanding that there's another type of melatonin that is produced during the day and is separate from the sleep-inducing properties of melatonin, so it doesn't actually make you fall asleep,

And it is produced in the mitochondria of, in every cell, every single mitochondria produces what's called subcellular melatonin.

Subcellular, sub, below cell, the cell, below the cell.

So in the mitochondria.

And this melatonin is produced in much more in quantity than pineal melatonin.

for nighttime, right?

So 95% of the melatonin that your body produces is produced in the mitochondria during the day in response to light.

Now, what type of light?

It's infrared light.

So the part of light that is invisible to the human eye, it is abundant in sunlight.

So around 50% of sunlight is infrared light.

And sort of I can run through the mechanism here and basically what happens as far as we understand it now, right?

This is fairly new research within the past 10-ish years.

And you know, that is new, like we were saying, like 10 years is very new in science.

Within the past few years, right?

We are understanding that this light penetrates the body.