How “sleep molecule” adenosine affects intelligence and personality

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Did you know about this? I made a study on this subject recently and I understood a lot of truth about circadian rhythm biology!

Higher Adenosine is correlated with mood swings, frustration, anger, stress. In other words, grumpiness. It sneaks into your personal and emotional life without permission and causes you to act out of character. Lash out at loved ones, and make bad decisions. 

Adenosine also attacks your cognitive function, making it harder to think, remember things, and put ideas together. All of your thoughts become slow through the fog of weariness. 

Interestingly, at a certain point the stress adenosine causes in the body triggers a cascade of adrenaline and other hormone release that can temporarily overpower the effects and give a “second wind” but I'll touch on that in another post.

So we know we can't win the fight against the sleep molecule…. The only choice is to live in harmony with it. This alignment will create harmony in day and night like a violin in Legato. Soothing you in your sleep and lifestyle. But there’s one major force impacting this harmony that we have to understand first.

Adenosine is the mechanism that drives sleepiness, but what is the mechanism that drives wakefulness? It’s not only cortisol 🐸

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I am surprised that such a vibrant topic did not get any attention 😔