Ep145: The Correlation Between Diet, Energy, and Sleep With Dr. Marie-Pierre St-Onge

OVERVIEW

Have you noticed that you eat more when you sleep less?

Your body tries to source the energy from food and you crave which leads to poor food choices. Because of this, you gain weight and always feel exhausted.

In today’s episode, we have Dr. Marie-Pierre St-Onge. She is a Nutrition & Sleep Researcher; Associate Professor of Nutritional Medicine and and Director of Center of Excellence for Sleep & Circadian Research at Columbia University. She is known for her study of the impact of lifestyle, specifically sleep and diet, on cardio-metabolic risk factors.

Dr. St-Onge has been NIH-funded since 2008. She conducts innovative, cutting-edge clinical research combining her expertise on sleep, nutrition, and energy balance regulation to address questions relating to the role of circadian rhythms, including sleep duration and timing as well as meal timing and eating patterns, on cardio-metabolic risk. She has strong expertise in the conduct of controlled inpatient and outpatient studies of sleep and dietary manipulations.

In this episode, she will share with us why it’s not always ideal to give in to rest and food craving even if you feel that it will make you feel better. She’ll also dissect how sleep restrictions affect your weight even if your food intake is the same as people who have enough sleep.

If you’re restricting your sleep, you’re not making the healthiest food choices.
- Dr. Marie-Pierre St-Onge

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WHAT WILL WE LEARN

00:49 What inspired Dr. St Onge to conduct a research on the relationship of diet, nutrition, and sleep
04:20 What happens when sleep is restricted
09:42 Is there a way for people with less sleep to be cautious with their food choices?
17:07 Where the extra energy comes from when you’re too tired
22:50 You can lose more weight if you have enough sleep
28:20 Different stages in life have different sleep requirements

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