Wendy Zukerman
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And do humans have cryptochrome?
Show me the whoa graph.
Is it the sinusoidal again?
Because I don't know if I can handle that, Meryl.
I don't know if I can handle it.
If you didn't think you were listening to a nerdy podcast, you do now.
That is, okay, so what is, is this magnetic fields?
It's hand-drawn, that's for sure.
Like someone used a ruler to make those lines.
Okay, so what this shows us is that the moon affects the magnetic field in this sinusoidal pattern...
that is similar to the way that the moon seems to affect our sleep.
But then step two, has anyone figured out if the cryptochrome in us is actually detecting those changes to the magnetic field and that that is then affecting our sleep?
Okay, so here is where we are at.
The cycles of the moon do seem to affect our sleep.
Somehow, we're not sure how.