There is a primal wisdom within all beings. This primal wisdom is the compass that navigates our daily lives and our daily rhythms.
When we attune our cadence with nature's circadian and seasonal cues, we step into harmony –– within our eating, our sleeping, our activity level, and our mental focus.
During this winter solstice time and the turning of the season, when the sun is low in the sky and the days are the shortest of the year, our primal wisdom adjusts.
According to Dr. Satchin Panda, (Circadian Scientist, best selling author, and this weeks podcast guest!), as the seasons shift and the sun rises and sets at a slightly different time each day, our internal clocks reset ––little by little, day by day.
During these darker and colder days of the year we are hungrier, we need more sleep, we naturally turn inward, and there is even a measurable increase in the immune molecules known to help fight viral infection.
These simple yet powerful micro-shifts will promote your health and your well-being, in how you want to live on.
This is the first episode on the new SATIATE season, and we are surely starting the season STRONG! I love the work Dr. Panda does, and I also love his personal story in how he became a world renowned Circadian Scientist. I hope you enjoy this incredible new episode in celebration of the changing of the season and the darkest day of the year.
Listen and hear:
Dr. Panda’s very personal childhood story that sparked his interest in circadian science.
The primal opportunities we have to harmonize with nature daily and seasonally.
The primary hormones governing our circadian rhythm and what happens when they get our of whack.
How the daily and seasonal cycles impact our eating, sleeping, activity and health.
How circadian rhythm impacts blood sugar and hence, diabetes.
A few simple daily practices you can make to attune to your circadian rhythm that make a big impact on how you feel.
Meet Dr. Satchin Panda
Dr. Satchin Panda, is a professor at The Salk Institute, California.
His lab studies how circadian rhythm in metabolism is an integral part of metabolic health and longevity.
In preclinical animal models he discovered that consuming all calories within a consistent 8-12 hours or Time-restricted feeding can sustain daily rhythms in anabolic and catabolic metabolism. Such temporal regulation of metabolism can prevent or reverse chronic diseases and increase lifespan.
To translate his preclinical findings to improve human health, his lab has developed an app – myCircadianClock. This app is being used to study the epidemiology of daily pattern of activity, sleep and food intake and to run parallel interventional studies to test the impact of time restricted feeding on various chronic diseases.
I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I did!
