Glossar

Created: 02.02.2025
Updated: 02.02.2025

• Hormone (released chemical which can act somewhere else)
• Altradian Cycle (about 90 min, sleep and day is split in these cycles)
• Melatonin (chemical which makes you want to sleep the more you have)
• Circadian Rythm/Circadian Clock (inner clock so our body knows approxametely time of day, around 24 hours long)
• Epinephrin/Adrenaline (both same molecule just produced elsewhere, E. near the kidney, A. in brain)
• Peptites (little proteins in blood stream)

• LUX (determined by Photon energy and not brightness, artificial light can be bright but a lot less LUX as not as bright sunlight)
• Jetlag (the inability to match local sunligh and local darkness to your circadian rythm)