We are actually blasted with huge amount of light when we walk into a grocery store,

rock store. And that amount of light is enough to suppress our melatonin so that we stay awake.

So a melanchotin hormone goes down. It also increases alertness because the same cells signal to the brand saying hey this is daytime you

should be staying awake so that's why it's not a good idea to spend too much time in

the evening in a bright lit store or in any place that's super bright it's

almost like having a couple of coughs of coffee in the evening.

Welcome to the Better Podcast. It's me, your host, Dr. Stephanie Asima. And today we are talking

to Dr. Sachin Panda, all about light, circadian and infradian rhythms,

and how this affects women in midlife.

Dr. Satcham Panda is a leading expert in the field of circadian rhythm research.

He is a professor at the Sulk Institute for Biological Studies

and a founding executive member of the Center for Circadian Biology at the University of California

in San Diego. Dr. Panda is a Pew Biomedical Scholar and a recipient of the Julian Martin

Mid-Career Award in Aging Research. So today's show, we talk all about light, sleep,

exercise, and eating, and how we actually have control over all of those things and how we

can make, what are some of the mechanisms that happen in the body when we are optimizing for light

exposure, for when we eat, when we exercise, and when we sleep. We talk all about this in the lens of women in midlife. So we talk about the

changes that happen to our circadian and infratian rhythms as we age. And we move through

menopause, paramedopause and menopause specifically. And Dr. Panda talks about how we can,

what are some of the strategies that we can implement to

help improve our lives in these areas. Now, I will say he is, he recorded this episode

at the Sulk Institute. And it does appear that the Sulk Institute is right in the flight pathway

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