I am Sarah Jane Case and this is Anya Graham and Coffee.

Hello friends welcome back to the podcast happy Wednesday. I hope your week so far is shooting you

well. You know I woke up tired today and I realized like I didn't know this but did you know that

the lack of light on a rainy day actually increases your melatonin production and it limits your

serotonin production which I think I knew on some level but I didn't really put together

which makes sense because I woke up so grobby today and I really felt like I'm like walking

through water to get anything done like I'm working twice as hard which though even now that I

say that I'm realizing I woke up grobby that doesn't really have anything to do with the sunlight.

So when I'm like looking for explanations I was like well I guess it's the lack of sunlight

but that doesn't make any sense like there's gotta be something different like in air pressure

or something that is also impacting it because it's like undeniable for me that I am going to feel

so much more tired on a rainy day than I am on a sunny day. I drink at least one additional cup

of coffee on a rainy day every single time because I am like it's like the first cup is make but like

didn't even hit my system at all and then the second cup's really the one. It's like almost like

two cups does the job of one cup on a normal day. I don't know. I'm feeling off and we're walking

through everything's taking twice the energy so but you know it's interesting to think about it

in terms of the sunlight because it is like biological and I think that's really fascinating because

so often I you know it's like that whole conversation we have all the time about how we expect ourselves

to show up the same every single day no matter how our circumstances have changed or kind of

what kind of mood we're in or how mental health is doing or how our physical health is doing

we like still expect ourselves to just show up and produce and how it actually just doesn't make

sense and biologically like if you know if it is the sunlight on a rainy day and we are

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