Exposure to electric lighting delays the circadian system.

And it prevents these seasonal changes that you might otherwise see

although the effects of those changes are currently unful.

If you look at people's lighting environments, the differences between natural lighting and one lighting are so stark.

So the question is what can we do now in the environments in which we live to perhaps

produce light dark cycles which are more reminiscent of those natural ones. Hello and welcome back to another episode of Sigma Nutrition Radio.

We are at episode 213 of the podcast today. And as always,

I am your host, Danny Lennon. Thank you so much for taking the time to listen to the podcast today.

And today's podcast sees a return of one of our research breakdown episodes where we essentially take two

recent research papers and dive into them in a bit more depth looking at behind the methodology,

the results, and then trying to draw some implications from those studies.

Today's topic is centered around the ideas of chronobiology or chrononutrition.

So we're particularly interested in the areas related to circadian rhythms, light dark cycle,

and then this potential for perhaps meal timing to have an influence on some of the peripheral circadian clocks

and the implications we will talk about later on.

To discuss the two papers we're going to get into today is a researcher in this area, Greg Potter from the University of Leeds,

who is just about finishing up his PhD work in this area and has selected two very recent papers

that should give us a good idea of where some of the current ideas lie within this field.

So I'm going to link to both of the papers that we're going to examine today's episode in the show

notes. So if you just go to sigma nutritionrition.com slash episode two one three, then you

will see a link for both those papers if you wish to look at those or pull up the full text

and dig through in a bit more detail. Greg, outside of his work at the university, has also

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