Hey everybody, welcome to another episode of the Genius Life.

I'm your host Max Lugovier, a filmmaker, health and science journalist,

and the author of the New York Times Best Selling Book Genius Foods.

I've dedicated my life to unraveling the science behind how our choices,

including what we eat and how we live, affect our cognitive and physical performance,

how we feel, and our health span and risk for disease.

This podcast is all about how to live in that optimal state.

I call this living like a genius.

In this episode of the show, I'm super excited to introduce you guys to Dr. Satchin Panda.

He's a researcher at the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences in La Jolla, California.

He's the author of the new book, The Circadian Code,

and he's one of the leading researchers in the area of circadian biology and genetics.

This has led him to studying the effects of time-restricted feeding,

or what many people today call intermittent fasting,

on parameters like weight and metabolism in mice.

Dr. Panda found that when mice eat within a set amount of time,

it results in slimmer, healthier mice.

Then when mice are able to eat around the clock,

called ad-libitum feeding,

even when the same number of calories are consumed.

This turns the old calories in, calories outmodel completely on its head,

and shows that when one eats,

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