[ExI] , melatonin

[Henry Rivera]

I saw this article on melatonin a week ago too:
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/12/covid-19-sleep-pandemic-zzzz/617454/

The Mysterious Link Between COVID-19 and Sleep
The coronavirus can cause insomnia and long-term changes in our nervous systems. But sleep could also be a key to ending the pandemic. 

> On Jan 30, 2021, at 4:22 AM, Ben via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> 
>  On 30/01/2021 03:56, bill w wrote:
>> Produced by the lungs?  Who knew the lungs were endocrine glands?
>> 
>> https://neurosciencenews.com/melatonin-lungs-covid-17632/
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> 
> Yes, the lungs (as well as a number of other organs) have multiple functions. This is one of the challenges for designing a more sensible, modular body that can easily be maintained and repaired without the need for invasive surgery (which would be one route to radical life-extension. Imagine a body that's more like a car, in that you can go to a shop and swap out your lungs for new ones, and it would just take 10 minutes with no pain, no damage and no need for recuperation and healing afterwards).
> Refactoring the various systems and organs into distinct modular units becomes quite difficult once you realise that bones don't just provide mechanical support, lungs don't just do gas exchange, kidneys don't just filter the blood, etc., etc. You end up having to design new organs that our original bodies don't have.
> 
> I expect there are more such multiple functions that we need to discover.
> 
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> Ben Zaiboc
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