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Diet Doctor Podcast · May 10, 2021 · 48m
Time-Restricted Eating and Circadian Metabolism
Circadian biology researcher Dr. Satchin Panda explains how the body's internal clocks regulate metabolism on a 24-hour cycle, why eating outside your biological window impairs health, and the optimal time-restricted eating protocol.
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Panda briefly notes that circadian health extends to sleep quality, and that nasal breathing during sleep (vs. mouth breathing) improves oxygen uptake efficiency, reduces snoring, and enhances deep sleep duration.
Highlights
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Every organ has its own circadian clock — eating at the wrong time disrupts metabolic coordination
Panda: the liver, pancreas, gut, and muscle each have independent circadian clocks that anticipate food intake. Eating outside the active window forces organs to process food when their enzymatic machinery is downregulated, producing metabolic inefficiency and damage.