Performance Around The Clock

Episode 18, the final episode from the Cell Symposia meeting on Exercise Metabolism in Lisbon, features Dr. Bret Goodpaster. As the Scientific Director at AdventHealth's Translational Research Institute, Dr. Goodpaster is a leading expert in exercise physiology and metabolism. In this episode, he shares his insights on exercise, muscle, aging, and the athlete’s paradox. We also delve into two majo...

Episode 17 of the Performance Around The Clock podcast comes from the Cell Symposia meeting on Exercise Metabolism in Lisbon. We were honored to host Dr. Bente Klarlund Pedersen and to talk about her brilliant career from her seminal research on myokines to "exercise as medicine". Dr. Pedersen also tells us about how she uses her knowledge of exercise to educate the public and effect policy change...

Episode 16 of the Performance Around the Clock podcast comes from the Cell Symposium on Exercise Metabolism in Lisbon, Portugal and features Dr. Mark Febbraio who is the head of Cellular and Molecular Metabolism Laboratory at Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences. His research focuses on understanding mechanisms associated with exercise, obesity, type 2 diabetes and cancer with an aim toward...

This week’s episode of the Performance Around the Clock podcast (episode 15) comes from the Cell Symposium on Exercise Metabolism in Lisbon, Portugal. Dr. Amber Mueller, scientific editor at Cell Metabolism and co-organizer of the symposium talks to us about life as a scientific editor and about the field of exercise metabolism. Enjoy! Guest: Dr. Amber Mueller Scientific Editor at Cell Metabolism...

In episode 14 of the Performance Around the Clock podcast, Dr. Laura van Rosmalen, a WuTsai scholar and postdoctoral researcher at the Salk Institute joins us to talk about her work with voles and seasonal rhythms, diurnality, nocturnality and energy balance, and a surprising connection with RED-S (Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport). Enjoy! Guest: Dr. Laura van Rosmalen WuTsai scholar Salk Insti...

Dr. Amita Sehgal, a Howard Hughes investigator studying circadian rhythms and sleep, joins episode 13 of the podcast this week to talk about her career including the discovery of the Drosophila TIM gene and her pivotal role in the development of Drosophila as a model for the study of sleep. Enjoy! Guest: Dr. Amita Sehgal John Herr Musser Professor in the neuroscience department at the Perelman Sch...

In this episode of the Performance Around the Clock podcast, we welcome Dr. Michael McCarthy, a biological psychiatrist at UCSD and the Veterans Medical Research Foundation. We talk about the latest in psychiatry and how circadian rhythms may be involved. Enjoy. Guest: Dr. Michael McCarthy Profiles: UCSD: https://profiles.ucsd.edu/michael.mccarthy VA: https://www.vmrf.org/copy-of-pi-chitra-mandyam...

In episode 11 of the Performance Around the Clock podcast, we have the privilege of speaking with Professor John Hogenesch - a neuroscientist/genome biologist/chronobiologist at UC Department of Pediatrics at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Dr. Hogenesch talks about applying the “principles of circadian biology to hospital medicine”. Enjoy! Guest: Dr. John Hogenesch Professor, U...

In this special, 10th episode of the Performance Around the Clock podcast, we have the honor of speaking with Professor Greg Lemke of the Salk Institute. We discuss his distinguished scientific career from the early beginnings to the discovery of TAM receptor tyrosine kinases. Enjoy. Guest: Dr. Greg Lemke Françoise Gilot-Salk Chair and professor in the Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory Salk Instit...

In episode 9 of Performance Around the Clock, we are delighted to talk to cardiologist, Dr. Elizabeth Sage Epstein again. Dr. Epstein and Dr. Panda discuss the role of cholesterol in cardiovascular disease risk. The conversation covers topics such as the absorption of fat and cholesterol in the body, the impact of LDL particles on plaque formation in coronary arteries, and the use of advanced card...

In episode 8 of the Performance Around the Clock podcast, Dr. Satchin Panda has an enlightening conversation with Dr. Elizabeth Sage Epstein, a cardiologist and author. They discuss the importance of the heart and impact on overall health, preventive measures for chronic diseases, the cardiovascular system and the importance of cardiac health in young, active individuals. Guest: Dr. Elizabeth Sage...

In episode 7 of the Performance Around the Clock podcast, Dr. Panda talks with Dr. Michael Lam who is a pulmonologist and assistant professor at the UCSD in the Department of Medicine and in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine. They explore the science of the immune system and link with circadian rhythms, delving into the impact of sleep, light, and even meal timing on the...

In episode 6 of Performance Around the Clock, host Professor Satchin Panda interviews Dr. Horacio de la Iglesia, a sleep and circadian expert from the University of Washington. We discuss how circadian rhythms affect nearly every aspect of human physiology and behavior, from hormone levels to sleep-wake cycles. Dr. De la Iglesia shares insights from his research on ancestral populations like the T...

In episode 5 of the PATC podcast, ophthalmology expert Dr. Kajuha Shubota discusses key research on how light affects vision and overall health with host Dr. Satchin Panda. He explains how lack of time outdoors and violet light exposure is increasing myopia rates in children, and eyeglasses may exacerbate the issue. He shares how dry eye is linked to stress and lifestyle factors. For presbyopia, h...

In episode 4 of the podcast, Dr. Tinh-Hai Collet, a physician and principal investigator at Geneva University Hospital, discusses with Dr. Satchin Panda his experience combining lifestyle interventions like meal timing and circadian rhythms with medicine to manage chronic conditions in patients. We discuss Dr. Collet's research on time-restricted eating, including a 6-month randomized controlled t...

In episode 3 of this podcast, sleep and circadian rhythm expert, professor Frank Scheer discusses how our internal body clocks regulate physiology and behaviors in a 24-hour cycle. He explains how measures like dim light melatonin onset and cortisol rhythms provide insights into circadian timing. The discussion covers how factors like light exposure, meal timing, and sleep impact circadian rhythms...

Episode 2 of Performance Around the Clock features Dr. Juleen Zierath who is a Professor of Physiology at the Karolinska Institutet and the University of Copenhagen. We discuss with Dr. Zierath about using exercise as medicine for metabolic diseases like obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. This includes how exercise affects multiple organs and systems in the body, improving insulin sens...

In this episode of Performance Around the Clock, host professor Satchin Panda interviews Dr. Hiroki Ueda, a circadian rhythm researcher at the University of Tokyo medical school and the RIKEN research institute in Japan. We discuss Dr. Ueda's pioneering work using genomics and imaging techniques to study how genes that regulate circadian rhythms turn on and off at different times of day in various...