How is melatonin regulated in people who are blind? Quirks Question
Dr. Parveen Bhatti answers this week's Quirks Question about how melatonin is regulated in blind individuals.
This week's Quirks Question comes to us from Reed Poynter in Langley, BC, who asks:
"As a totally blind person with detached retinas, how is my melatonin level regulated? If, for me, the lights are always out, as it were, why am I not always sleeping? What research has been done in this area?"
To answer this question, we reached Dr. Parveen Bhatti, a Canadian native epidemiologist now working at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.
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