Melatonin Anxiety, Lightning Laser, Toddler’s Best Friend

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Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Today you’ll learn about whether or not melatonin can be used to treat anxiety, the development of a laser that can change the path of lightning, and how a recent study shows that children are hard-wired to empathize with dogs!

Melatonin Anxiety

“Melatonin as a Potential Approach to Anxiety Treatment” by Kristina Repova et al.
- https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/23/24/16187
“How Melatonin for Sleep May Help Your Anxiety Symptoms” by Atlanova
- https://atlanova.com/how-melatonin-for-sleep-may-help-your-anxiety-symptoms/
“Can You Use Melatonin to Help Ease Anxiety?” by Alan Carter
- https://www.healthline.com/health/anxiety/melatonin-for-anxiety
“Melatonin for anxiety: effectiveness, dosage, side effects” by Patricia Weiser
- https://ro.co/health-guide/melatonin-for-anxiety/
“Free radicals, antioxidants and functional foods: Impact on human health” by V. Lobo et al.
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3249911/#:~:text=If%20free%20radicals%20overwhelm%20the,in%20coping%20this%20oxidative%20stress.
“Stress, Oxidative Injury and Disease” by Kaushal K. Srivastava and Ratan Kumar
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4310835/

Lightning Laser

“A powerful laser can redirect lightning strikes” by Maria Temming
- https://www.sciencenews.org/article/laser-lightning-rod-electricity
“Laser-guided lightning” by Aurélien Houard et al.
- https://www.sciencenews.org/article/laser-lightning-rod-electricity
“Superfast laser pulses could pave way for beam weapons” by Andrew Grant
- https://www.sciencenews.org/article/superfast-laser-pulses-could-pave-way-beam-weapons

Toddler’s Best Friend

“Toddlers may be wired to help their dog friends” by Laura Baisas
- https://www.popsci.com/science/toddlers-help-dogs/
“Do children help dogs spontaneously?” by Rachna B. Reddy et al.
- https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.1079/hai.2023.0001

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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery.
0:09.0	Time flies when you're learning super cool stuff.
0:11.0	I'm Nate.
0:12.0	And I'm Callie. If you're dropping it for the first time,
0:14.0	welcome to Curiosity where we aim to blow your mind by helping you to grow your mind.
0:18.3	If you're a loyal listener, welcome back. Today you'll learn about whether or not
0:22.1	melatonin can be used to treat anxiety,
0:25.3	the development of a laser that can change the path of lightning,
0:29.6	and how a recent study shows that children are hardwired to empathize with dogs.
0:35.4	Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:39.0	Okay, I take melatonin almost every night to go to sleep, and it's also pretty common knowledge on to look into that. All right, well, you said it's common knowledge, but I feel like a lot of things that are
0:55.0	common knowledge facts are not in fact factual.
0:59.0	Okay, that's fair.
1:01.0	And there's some things that you want to take into account
1:04.0	when it comes to something like Melatonin
1:06.2	because it's largely unregulated,
1:08.5	but that's an entirely different story.
1:10.9	I think the reason that the claim seemed suspicious is because melatonin is technically
1:15.6	natural.
1:16.6	It's created in the body inside our panile glands, then released into our bloodstreams at night
1:21.5	to help regulate our inner clocks, also known as our circadian rhythms.
1:25.6	But anxiety also comes from inside the body, which means that it could overcome any natural
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