Sleep Science
Your body clock is a physical structure, not a metaphor
It sits above the optic chiasm, it contains about 20,000 neurons, it keeps near-24-hour time in a dish with no external input, and the genes that run it won a Nobel Prize.
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Every Kingdom of Dream article tagged melatonin — 2 pieces across 1 section.
Sleep Science
It sits above the optic chiasm, it contains about 20,000 neurons, it keeps near-24-hour time in a dish with no external input, and the genes that run it won a Nobel Prize.
Sleep Science
Light does suppress melatonin and shift the body clock. Whether your phone at bedtime does enough of it to matter is a more interesting question than the blue-light-filter industry suggests.