Episode 210: Greg Potter - Circadian Rhythm masterclass

The Robbie Bourke Podcast

English - April 30, 2019 15:26 - 1 hour - 129 MB - ★★★★ - 35 ratings
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Previous Episode: Episode 209: Dr. Ian Dunican - Sleep and Performance - Part 2 - sleep cycles, caffeine, and sleep disorders

Next Episode: Episode 211: Derek Hansen - The life of a high performance sport consultant

This episodes guest is Greg Potter from Humanos.me

Greg Potter's PhD work at the University of Leeds on sleep, diet, and metabolic health was featured by the likes of the BBC World Service, the Washington Post, and Reuters. Greg has a BSc and an MSc in Exercise Physiology from Loughborough University, where he coached a sprinter to four gold medals at the European Championships. Greg has also worked with groups such as The United States Naval Special Warfare Command on health and performance optimisation.

Greg also likes science, mountains, diving, sunshine, techno, and fish pie!

On this episode Greg and I discuss:

Greg's background
I ask Greg how he got into circadian biology research
I ask Greg to explain what is a circadian rhythm?
I ask Greg how detrimental is artificial light, central heating within homes, and available of out of season foods on our health
I ask Greg to explain the concept of "social jet lag"
I ask Greg about the use of rodent models for sleep research and inferring these results to humans
I ask Greg would ape models be better to use for sleep research?
I ask Greg about Blind peoples circadian regulation
I ask Greg about peripheral clocks and their influences
I ask Greg about the detrimental impact of misalignment between the central and peripheral body clocks
I ask Greg for his top and current book recommendation
And, finally I ask Greg about future topics I want to discuss with him when we do our next podcast - these include - circadian regulation and the microbiome, indoor lighting, light therapy, behaviour change, circadian rhythms impact on blood chemistry and CBC panels, and chronotypes

Episode 210: Greg Potter - Circadian Rhythm masterclass

The Robbie Bourke Podcast

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