Melatonin has got the name vampire hormone, not because it is sinister but simply because is released at night. Melatonin is the chemical through the suprachiasmatic nucleus (a part of the brain which receives the light input) and communicates to the body.

How to take back control over your life?

Lets talk about dopamine? People call it a chemical of want and desire.

Auto-Brewery Syndrome

Have you ever accused your friend of drinking, seeing their condition, and lab tests and your friend do not admit it? There is a few percent chance that he or she might be true. There is a syndrome called Auto-Brewery Syndrome.
In this syndrome, ethanol is literally produced inside your body, either your urinary tract, oral cavity, or any other part of the gastrointestinal tract. As to some of you, it might seem a boon, as the internal factory is set for alcohol, but it has serious consequences.

One might expect to have highly synchronous brain waves while wakefulness, matching the ordered pattern of your (mostly) logical thought during waking consciousness. But this is not true as seen in the wave pattern. This chaotic waveform is explained by the different functioning of the different brain parts at different times in different ways.

Have you ever wondered there is any relationship between sleep and the Alzheimer's disease? How is memory loss related to sleep? All your answers at one place with concepts linked.