Understanding your circadian rhythm and how to prevent daylight savings from throwing your body off

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4.6 • 690 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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WHOOP VP of Performance Kristen Holmes and VP of Data Science and Research Emily Capodilupo return for an in-depth look at how the end of Daylight Savings Time messes with your circadian rhythm. This is everything you need to know about how your body’s internal clock can be altered by even just the change of one hour. Emily and Kristen discuss studying the differences between daylight time and standard time (4:37), the rise in heart attacks after the clocks change (5:20), understanding your c...

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0:00.0	Hello, folks. Welcome to the WOOP podcast. I'm your host, Will Amad, founder and CEO of Woop,
0:10.4	and we are on a mission to unlock human performance. We build technology, hardware, software,
0:16.3	analytics. It's designed to help you improve your body, improve your health, change behavior.
0:21.9	And you can get 15% off a W-W-M-M-E-M-E-D. We have an amazing podcast for you today with
0:32.4	Kristen Holmes and Emily Capulupo on daylight savings and how it affects your body.
0:38.9	And first, I wanted to say that we've just made an exciting announcement that Woop has raised
0:43.9	$100 million in a new round of financing.
0:47.5	And so if you're interested about what that means for the company and how we're going
0:51.5	to use those funds, you can read more about it on the locker.
0:55.4	I can just tell you that for all the Woot members out there listening to this, I want to give
1:00.8	you a big thank you. Thank you for being on this mission with us to unlock human performance.
1:05.6	Thank you for believing in us. And we're going to use this capital to invest in your membership
1:09.7	experience. So we're going to reinvest in everything around software and features and analytics and just overall continue to make Whoop the best experience for understanding the human body.
1:21.2	Again, if you want to learn more about the round of financing or how we're going to be utilizing this capital, please check it out at
1:28.1	whoop.com slash locker. Okay, this week's episode, VP of Performance, Kristen Holmes, is joined by
1:35.3	VP of Data Science and Research, Emily Capital Lupo, and they go deep on how the end of daylight
1:42.2	saving time messes with your circadian rhythm. This is everything you
1:46.7	need to know about how your body's internal clock can be altered by even just the change of one hour.
1:52.9	Emily and Kristen dive deep on the physiology and the science behind it all and share their tips and
1:58.1	tricks for how your body can avoid falling behind when we fall back this
2:02.7	weekend. They discuss some astonishing studies showing just how negatively the time change can
2:08.2	affect us. Heart attacks go up, car accidents rise, reports of depression increase, it's pretty
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