Your eyes are one of your main sense organs, 80% of information about a person’s environment is received by visual perception. Your eyesight is a precious gift to your existence, this is all thanks to your retina and the pinecone-shaped tiny endocrine pineal gland in your brain. Your pineal gland is a light sensing organ and it is lined with tissue containing water with floating crystals. It is positioned at the same level as your eyes and it produces the hormone melatonin derived from serotonin.
The retina is a highly complex thin layer of tissue at the front of the eye, it allows colour perception and receives images which convert to messages to the brain. Those messages travel from the retina to the suprachiasmatic nucleus which is the hypothalamus of the brain. The messages then go to the pineal gland which is the size of a grain of rice found in the midline of the brain.
‘Tick tock’ – the pineal gland produces the hormone melatonin which controls your sleep patterns, this plays a major role in your internal clock – the human 24-hour circadian cycle.
Stay mindful…your mind’s eye is under attack!
The pineal gland is under constant attack. Calcium fluoride accumulates on the gland with chlorine and bromine which can leave the gland in a calcified state. When this happens, the gland produces less melatonin which results in a more disturbed sleep.