Corpus evidence — top 10 passages

Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).

1. 01 · _intake0.984

   > people don't understand about dopamine as dopamine is created from the aromatic amino acid tyrosine and phenylalanine in humans and the reason why I use the word aromatic is not to confuse the audiences so the audience know the benzene ring is a photon trap and it turns out it's a photon trap for UV light because most people who come upon this information always think that melatonin is a

   _intake/claims-allbranch/curated-low/dopamine/007-people-don-t-understand-about-dopamine-as-dopamine-is-create.md

2. 02 · yt0.928

   you're chronically division it you have an alteration in melatonin and dopamine and it turns out depression is very associated with dopamine well people don't understand about dopamine as dopamine is created from the aromatic amino acid tyrosine and phenylalanine in humans and the reason why I use the word aromatic is not to confuse the audiences so the audience know the benzene ring is a photon trap and it turns out it's a photon trap for UV light because most people who come upon this information always think that melatonin is a nighttime hormone most people do not realize that the benzene r…

   yt/g_rlcavhGLs-jack-kruse-on-how-light-sculpts-your-microbiome-implications/transcript.txt

3. 03 · yt0.907

   you're chronically deficient in you have an alteration in melatonin and dopamine and it turns out depression is very associated with dopamine what people don't understand about dopamine is dopamine is Created from the aromatic amino acid tyrosine and phenyalanine in humans and the reason why I use the word aromatic is not to confuse the audiences so the audience know the Benzene ring is a photon trap and it turns out it's a photon trap for UV light because most people who come upon this information always think think that melatonin is a nighttime hormone most people do not realize that the Ben…

   yt/Mb8lQtKduVI-how-our-gut-health-is-linkd-with-the-sun-by-dr-jack-kruse-he/transcript.txt

4. 04 · _intake0.851

   Tyrosine is one of 3 aromatic amino acids. All aromatic amino acids are relatively nonpolar. To different degrees, all aromatic amino acids absorb ultraviolet light. Tyrosine and tryptophan absorb more than do phenylalanine; tryptophan is responsible for most of the absorbance of ultraviolet light ( 280 nm = UV) by proteins. Tyrosine is the only one of the aromatic amino acids with a photo-ionizable side chain. Tyrosine is one of three hydroxyl-containing amino acids. When dopamine is made any other way chemically or substrate substituted the brain and cells cannot control its concentration pr…

   _intake/kruse-blog-corpus/articles/time-6-time-and-dopamine.md

5. 05 · _intake0.824

   Dopamine is made from the AA tyrosine. Eating a high protein diet promotes dopamine production. It is abundant in poultry, meat, dairy products, almonds and avocados. It’s why we formed our large brains from an evolutionary point of view. Dopamine is the NT of our newest part of our brain, the frontal lobe. The majority of tyrosine that does not get incorporated into proteins is catabolized for energy production. One other significant fate of tyrosine is conversion to the catecholamines (NE, and EP). The catecholamine neurotransmitters are dopamine, norepinephrine, and epinephrine used in stre…

   _intake/kruse-blog-corpus/articles/your-gutneurotransmitters-and-hormones.md

6. 06 · _intake0.821

   *Making dopamine begins with the interaction of UV light and tyrosine for humans. There is another key link also tied to UV light I mentioned in [Ubi 24 blog](https://jackkruse.com/ubiquitination-24-are-myopia-light-and-aging-linked/).* Bright full spectrum outdoor light stimulates the release of the retinal transmitter dopamine, which is known to be able to block the axial growth of the eye, which can also lead to eye elongation. Bright full spectrum light contains UVA light. When UV light is missing dopamine levels are lower in the eye. Anytime dopamine is lowered, it also changes the size a…

   _intake/kruse-blog-corpus/articles/time-6-time-and-dopamine.md

7. 07 · _intake0.811

   The reason for this is because our eyes have become dopamine factories for our frontal lobes because they have evolved a unique way to use UV light and tyrosine to make more dopamine. This is how dopamine relates to time. The more dopamine we have the less sleep we need to regenerate. The less we have the more sleep we need. As we age, we lose dopamine because the lens of the human eye does not allow UV free passage as it did in youth. When this occurs, less dopamine is made. As a result, less ocular melatonin is made and older humans cannot sleep long enough to regenerate and diseases of agin…

   _intake/kruse-blog-corpus/articles/time-6-time-and-dopamine.md

8. 08 · yt0.801

   But you know what you don't know about aromatic amino acids? They all absorb UV light. Did you know that? Well, I didn't 12 years ago. But the key thing is the eye is loaded with these amino acids specifically. So that raised a question. Why is this? Well, I found out from physics that a benzene ring, which is in every single aromatic amino acid, is a photon trap. And they absorb all frequencies of UV light. So, guess what that means? That 250 to 380 is absorbed by this. That's the reason why we don't see it because it's designed to do something different. Okay? And here's the key. every singl…

   yt/zGAACx89jMU-dr-jack-kruse-nourish-vermont-2017-on-circadian-biology-and-/transcript.txt

9. 09 · _intake0.788

   An aromatic amino acid may be defined as a cyclic compound filled with hexagons with large resonance energy because this ring acts as a photon trap. This occurs because all the annular atoms in the hexagons take part in a single conjugated system to capture the light to use it in ways we cannot fathom in living systems.

   _intake/kruse-blog-corpus/articles/reality-17-light-sculpt-life.md

10. 10 · _intake0.783

    Most people think melatonin is our “dark hormone”. That is true, but few know that UV light is what regenerates the melatonin cycle in us. Melatonin teaches us a great many things about all the proteins in us that are biogenic amines that also work *with sunlight in novel ways*. Those proteins are *melatonin, serotonin, melanin, and dopamine*. They all use the sun in some very complex and counterintuitive ways. The end result of this transaction for all four is to deliver energy to mitochondria in a novel way. How it happens is the unfolding story in this blog, but it is based around how life …

    _intake/kruse-blog-corpus/articles/the-dark-knight.md