Welcome everyone. This is Dr. Mercola helping you take control of your health and today we are joined by Dr.

Satchand Panda who is really one of the leading researchers in a very important topic about your health that many of us really don't know enough

about to optimize their health and that is the circadian rhythm and he's written a

book recently that was published in the summer of 2018 called the Circading Code and it's really a great read and

written at a level that is easy to understand and has lots of good solid information there.

So welcome and thank you for joining us today, Dr. Panda.

Thank you, I'm glad to be here.

Yeah, and you, I think we can start with the way

you got into this, because it's interesting.

Obviously you're from India and like many people in India which I think it kind of buys for I think China is probably a little bigger country but it's definitely one of the biggest countries in the world and agriculture is big over there so I think

that was your initial thing because you grew up in a rural village with your grandfather and

start doing that and then you then you progressed into molecular biology.

So why don't you tell us about that journey

and how you got to the United States?

Well, as you pointed out, I was exposed to agriculture pretty early on in my life. My grandfather had a farm and during

summertime I would go there and mingle with my cousins and see how they lived their life.

And it was interesting because the village did not have electricity and whole day everybody was

out in the backyard.

The children were playing or doing some chores and then the adults

were working in the field.

And it was two or three square meals and everything would sit down around sunset we would have our dinner and then

there was very little light at night and I used to get my best sleep during the

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