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Your listening to Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey.

Today's interview is with one of the leading researchers in the world looking at circadian

biology, which is how your body responds to night and dark cycles.

When you listen all the way through to the end, you're going to learn so many different

things you can do to improve the way your body functions that don't have a lot to do

with exercise or any of the things you might expect.

There's just tons of really good information from one of the guys doing the in the trenches

work with some powerful stories filling it in.

So you'll enjoy this one.

Today's cool fact of the day is that 50 years ago, scientists were first able to create

synthetic DNA.

50 years ago, they produced a type of viral DNA called Phi X-174, which is an extremely

simple molecule with only five or six genes.

But that laid the foundation for the synthesis of more complex DNA, including the whole genome

and even semi-synthetic organisms.

And who would have thought 50 years ago, things do change quickly, but this was before I

was born.

This is a huge achievement since the structure of the DNA molecule was discovered only a few

years before they did this in 1953.

And that was discovered by none other than Francis Crick.

Today's guest is a friend of mine, Sachin Panda, who has perhaps the coolest name of any

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