Tuning Your Health With Your Circadian Rhythm Makes You Feel Better

It’s Exciting To See What A Body Clock Reset Does For You

How Your Circadian Rhythm Tunes Your Health: Satchin Panda at TEDxYouth@SanDiego 2013 – YouTube

Summary of Satchin Panda at TEDxYouth :

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Circadian Rhythms are in humans, animals and even plants

“A frog has a clock.”

• The frog returned to the house of Satchin Panda at 5 pm promptly daily, causing a career change.

• Every plant, animal and humans have a clock – circadian rhythms, the 24 hour clock which has a profound effect on our health and physiology

• Babies don’t have a fully functional clock sleeping random times of the day. By 3-6 months babies have functioning clocks

• The clocks turn on and off thousands of genes at different times of the day

• They tune our physiology, metabolism and mood to the right time of the day

• Two AM is the deepest sleep with the clock preparing us to wake up by warming up our body and pacing our heart

• As soon as we wake up, open our eyes and start our day the stress hormone, cortisol, begins to rise
• The digestive juice and all the hormones that help digestion begin to flow

• After breakfast when we attend school or offices our brain is at it’s peak performance, ready to solve complex math and to make critical decisions

• The afternoon is the muscle clock which fine-tunes our muscle tone, improves our motor control, making it the best time to visit the gym

• In the evening, as the sun goes down, the body clock prepares us to sleep with our core temperature lowering, making the melatonin rise, while the stress hormones go down and we fall asleep

• This usually happens daily in a very regular fashion

• Learn what things in our environment tune our clock to have better control of our circadian rhythm and health

• Light resets the clock. There is a light sensor in the eye that resets our clock. Blue light sensors, melanopsin senses light and tunes our clock to the local time.

• In the evening the light sensor goes off so we can go to sleep

• Computers, phones and TV activates the light sensor at night and messes up our sleep

• The time that we eat also messes up the clock, which is actually more important

• Eating both day and night causes fat, physiology and metabolism

• Eating a normal healthy diet has been noted eaten only during the day when the genes turn on at the right time of the day
• While the high-fat diet messes up the clock, the genes don’t turn on at the right time.
• Or they don’t turn off when they are not required

• Is it the food or the light, or both that actually made the high-fat diet fat?

• What you eat may be as important as when you eat, followed by experiments with mice

• The next time you take a bite, check your watch to see what time it is, or in the nighttime remember to switch off that light.

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