Hello and welcome to Sigma Nutrition Radio, the podcast that brings you conversations about

nutritional and health science. I am your host, Danny Lennon. Circadian biology plays a fundamental

role in human health and research has shown that nutrient ingestion can potentially

impact our quote-unquote body clocks in various peripheral

tissues around the body, suggesting that when we eat our meals can have implications for health

via an influence on circadian rhythms. In addition, it's been hypothesized that maybe having a

restricted feeding window can have potential benefits on body composition and health,

again likely via circadian effects, at least in some part.

And a related hypothesis suggests that distribution of calories over the day, where the majority are eaten either early versus late can also have some health impacts.

So in today's conversation, we're going to try and explore some of the mechanisms,

current literature, and pragmatic implications of this, and therefore maybe piece apart how we might

eat or think about eating for optimal health. So I'm delighted to be able to bring

back onto the podcast, my good friend Alan Flanagan, who is currently embedded in this research as we

speak, currently completing PhD research at the University of Surrey in the UK, where his research is in the general field of

chronon nutrition with their current study having a specific focus on this calorie distribution

question and how that may impact health and energy balance. If you're unaware of Alan and haven't

came across his work before, then first I would recommend

you go back and check out episode 255 of this podcast.

I had Alan on and we talked about all sorts of things related to public health nutrition

and nutritional epidemiology.

Also, I would recommend you go check him out on Instagram as well.

I will link up to all his background and his Instagram and anything else relevant in the show notes this particular episode

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