What Is The Pineal Gland?: Dr. Berg On Melatonin Benefits & Serotonin
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 12 July 2021
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast, I explain about the pineal gland. It actually has optical tissue, probably because tissue from your retina extends up into the pineal gland in your brain. It produces a hormone called melatonin. Although you can take melatonin to help you sleep, I don’t recommend it. Because it’s a hormone, over time your pineal gland will become dependent on you taking melatonin, and you’ll need to keep increasing the amount to get the same effect.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast. |
| 0:07.4 | Where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing |
| 0:11.3 | healthy weight. |
| 0:15.9 | Hey guys, I'm back. |
| 0:23.6 | In this video, we're going to talk about the pineal gland. |
| 0:25.8 | It's a very interesting gland. |
| 0:27.3 | It actually has optical tissue. |
| 0:30.9 | That's probably because there's a connection between your eyes, which is the retina, which |
| 0:34.9 | is part of your brain extending into your eye. |
| 0:37.7 | It's nerve tissue, it goes right into this little gland and it produces a hormone called |
| 0:43.4 | melatonin. |
| 0:44.4 | You can buy melatonin at the health store or at the drug store to help you sleep. |
| 0:49.3 | I don't recommend taking it because it's a hormone and anytime you take something like |
| 0:54.1 | that over a period of time, it will then cause the pineal gland to be dependent on this |
| 1:00.5 | and you'll need more and more to create the same effect. |
| 1:05.0 | What does melatonin do? |
| 1:06.4 | It actually turns into serotonin and helps you sleep. |
| 1:09.8 | It also is involved in something called the adrenal axis, which is kind of the adrenal pathway |
| 1:14.8 | from the hypothalamus to the pituitary down to the adrenal gland. |
| 1:18.8 | There's this whole kind of a feedback loop that's involved in the triggering of adrenal |
| 1:25.8 | hormones. |
| 1:26.8 | During illnesses, your immune system is affected by melatonin, probably why you want to sleep |
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