How Meal Timing Affects Sleep & Metabolism with Circadian Rhythm Expert Dr. Satchin Panda

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4.6 • 690 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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In this episode of the WHOOP Podcast, WHOOP SVP of Research, Algorithms, and Data, Emily Capodilupo, sits down with renowned circadian rhythm researcher and expert, Dr. Satchin Panda, to explore how the timing of your daily habits, like light exposure, sleep, and meals, can transform your health. Dr. Panda explains why our body doesn’t just run on a single “master clock,” but on a network of clocks in nearly every cell—and how food timing plays a surprisingly powerful role in synchronizing th...

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0:00.0	If we have too much light at night, we stay awake.
0:03.2	When we sleep less at night, then the next day morning, our control of our food deteriorates.
0:08.4	Sleep actually helps us to make decisions.
0:10.3	There are a lot of decisions we make throughout the day.
0:12.5	Some of the decisions are what to eat, when to eat, how much to eat, when to stop eating.
0:16.6	Light is still the primary driver for our subconscious decision to eat.
0:24.3	Dr. Panda, we are so, so excited to have you here.
0:27.2	Thank you so much for traveling all this way to be here.
0:29.8	I'm excited to be here, too.
0:31.6	We're going to start with something a little bit fun.
0:33.8	We're going to do a rapid fire set of questions.
0:36.5	I know it's super hard, but you can only
0:39.1	answer true or false, and then we'll dig into the details over the next 45 minutes or so.
0:45.1	True or false. The time of day you eat has no effect on your metabolism. Faults.
0:49.9	Okay. You knew that was an easy one.
0:52.6	A. True or false. Exposure to blue light at night can disrupt your ability to fall asleep.
0:57.9	True.
0:58.6	True or false.
0:59.5	Hundreds of medications could be more effective if taken at specific times of day.
1:03.9	True.
1:04.3	True or false.
1:05.2	Does restricting eating to an 8 to 12 hour window show benefits for both weight control
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