Daylight, brain serotonin, and the gut's separate pool
Morning light reaches brain serotonin through the eye. The gut's serotonin does not commute upstairs to become a mood.
Priya Raman
Tag: Sleep architecture
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Growth hormone waits for deep sleep, not for an early bedtime
The big growth-hormone pulse rides slow-wave sleep. Going to bed early does nothing if that deep sleep never arrives.
Priya Raman
How a short night changes the next morning's glucose
A short night raises the morning cortisol signal and makes the same breakfast harder for insulin to clear.
Lena Voss