Sentences with phrase «release sleepy hormones»

Babies release sleepy hormones just from sucking, whether or not their bellies get full, so pushing off a feeding by using a pacifier can cause baby to not eat often enough or get enough milk.

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«Sunlight will decrease the release of melatonin, a hormone that makes us sleepy,» says Steve Orma, clinical psychologist and co-author of Stop Worrying and Go to Sleep: How to Put Insomnia to Bed for Good.

It has much to do with the fact that the daylight hours are longer, thus interfering with the release of Melatonin (our «sleepy hormone»).

Phase One: Phase one begins as soon as the sun sets, when the pineal gland starts to release melatonin, a hormone released in the absence of light and responsible for making us sleepy.