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It may be time to switch up your shower routine.

A wellness trend making the rounds on social media promotes ‘dark showering,’ which is exactly what it sounds like: your daily bathing ritual, just at night or with the lights low.

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" Light powerfully influences the brain ," Dr. Daniel Amen, psychiatrist, brain imaging specialist and founder of Amen Clinics in California, told Fox News Digital. This is done through the retinohypothalamic tract, a pathway that connects your eyes to the brain’s master body clock, called the suprachiasmatic nucleus.

Bright light and blue light tell the body to wake up by raising cortisol and lowering melatonin. But when the

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