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Dr. Satchin Panda

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Dhru Purohit Show
Supercharge Your Sleep and Improve Your Longevity Using the Power of Intermittent Fasting & Circadian Biology (Rebroadcast)

They're sleepy and then for the rest of the day, it means they wake up after midday. So then the question is, if you delay the high school start time, hopefully you can give them opportunity to sleep a little bit more. So this is a study that Farashio took great pain in convincing a couple of schools and then also the Seattle School District.

Dhru Purohit Show
Supercharge Your Sleep and Improve Your Longevity Using the Power of Intermittent Fasting & Circadian Biology (Rebroadcast)

They're sleepy and then for the rest of the day, it means they wake up after midday. So then the question is, if you delay the high school start time, hopefully you can give them opportunity to sleep a little bit more. So this is a study that Farashio took great pain in convincing a couple of schools and then also the Seattle School District.

Dhru Purohit Show
Supercharge Your Sleep and Improve Your Longevity Using the Power of Intermittent Fasting & Circadian Biology (Rebroadcast)

They're sleepy and then for the rest of the day, it means they wake up after midday. So then the question is, if you delay the high school start time, hopefully you can give them opportunity to sleep a little bit more. So this is a study that Farashio took great pain in convincing a couple of schools and then also the Seattle School District.

Dhru Purohit Show
Supercharge Your Sleep and Improve Your Longevity Using the Power of Intermittent Fasting & Circadian Biology (Rebroadcast)

to experimentally delay high school start time by just an hour. And has he reported the findings? Yeah, so that was actually published in 2017, 2018. So there are two different schools.

Dhru Purohit Show
Supercharge Your Sleep and Improve Your Longevity Using the Power of Intermittent Fasting & Circadian Biology (Rebroadcast)

to experimentally delay high school start time by just an hour. And has he reported the findings? Yeah, so that was actually published in 2017, 2018. So there are two different schools.

Dhru Purohit Show
Supercharge Your Sleep and Improve Your Longevity Using the Power of Intermittent Fasting & Circadian Biology (Rebroadcast)

to experimentally delay high school start time by just an hour. And has he reported the findings? Yeah, so that was actually published in 2017, 2018. So there are two different schools.

Dhru Purohit Show
Supercharge Your Sleep and Improve Your Longevity Using the Power of Intermittent Fasting & Circadian Biology (Rebroadcast)

And this is where we talk a lot about scientific results and how the lifestyle and everything is built on scientific evidence, but it takes a lot of pain and a lot of organizational skill to get this simple study done. And there was also a lot of opposition because the parents said, well, if you delay the high school start time, then maybe we cannot drop them in the right time. Right.

Dhru Purohit Show
Supercharge Your Sleep and Improve Your Longevity Using the Power of Intermittent Fasting & Circadian Biology (Rebroadcast)

And this is where we talk a lot about scientific results and how the lifestyle and everything is built on scientific evidence, but it takes a lot of pain and a lot of organizational skill to get this simple study done. And there was also a lot of opposition because the parents said, well, if you delay the high school start time, then maybe we cannot drop them in the right time. Right.

Dhru Purohit Show
Supercharge Your Sleep and Improve Your Longevity Using the Power of Intermittent Fasting & Circadian Biology (Rebroadcast)

And this is where we talk a lot about scientific results and how the lifestyle and everything is built on scientific evidence, but it takes a lot of pain and a lot of organizational skill to get this simple study done. And there was also a lot of opposition because the parents said, well, if you delay the high school start time, then maybe we cannot drop them in the right time. Right.

Dhru Purohit Show
Supercharge Your Sleep and Improve Your Longevity Using the Power of Intermittent Fasting & Circadian Biology (Rebroadcast)

Yeah. And then the school buses, the driver said, no, it kind of breaks our schedule. So it took a huge amount of planning to do this study. And this is only two different schools. And also he had to make sure that you just can't do it in one school because every school has a different demographic. People, students of different socioeconomic status also come in.

Dhru Purohit Show
Supercharge Your Sleep and Improve Your Longevity Using the Power of Intermittent Fasting & Circadian Biology (Rebroadcast)

Yeah. And then the school buses, the driver said, no, it kind of breaks our schedule. So it took a huge amount of planning to do this study. And this is only two different schools. And also he had to make sure that you just can't do it in one school because every school has a different demographic. People, students of different socioeconomic status also come in.

Dhru Purohit Show
Supercharge Your Sleep and Improve Your Longevity Using the Power of Intermittent Fasting & Circadian Biology (Rebroadcast)

Yeah. And then the school buses, the driver said, no, it kind of breaks our schedule. So it took a huge amount of planning to do this study. And this is only two different schools. And also he had to make sure that you just can't do it in one school because every school has a different demographic. People, students of different socioeconomic status also come in.

Dhru Purohit Show
Supercharge Your Sleep and Improve Your Longevity Using the Power of Intermittent Fasting & Circadian Biology (Rebroadcast)

So he had to do it in two different schools, one relatively rich neighborhood and one not so rich neighborhood. And for one year, the students actually delayed their school start time and then he had to follow them. So he had to collect, actually objectively collect information. how much activity, how much sleep these kids had by putting an active watch or FDA-approved Fitbit kind of device.

Dhru Purohit Show
Supercharge Your Sleep and Improve Your Longevity Using the Power of Intermittent Fasting & Circadian Biology (Rebroadcast)

So he had to do it in two different schools, one relatively rich neighborhood and one not so rich neighborhood. And for one year, the students actually delayed their school start time and then he had to follow them. So he had to collect, actually objectively collect information. how much activity, how much sleep these kids had by putting an active watch or FDA-approved Fitbit kind of device.

Dhru Purohit Show
Supercharge Your Sleep and Improve Your Longevity Using the Power of Intermittent Fasting & Circadian Biology (Rebroadcast)

So he had to do it in two different schools, one relatively rich neighborhood and one not so rich neighborhood. And for one year, the students actually delayed their school start time and then he had to follow them. So he had to collect, actually objectively collect information. how much activity, how much sleep these kids had by putting an active watch or FDA-approved Fitbit kind of device.

Dhru Purohit Show
Supercharge Your Sleep and Improve Your Longevity Using the Power of Intermittent Fasting & Circadian Biology (Rebroadcast)

And that also collected their light exposure, their physical activity, their sleep. And then not only that, he had to also collect how they were doing at school. So then he had to get access to grades and tardiness, whether the students were actually getting late to school or early to school.

Dhru Purohit Show
Supercharge Your Sleep and Improve Your Longevity Using the Power of Intermittent Fasting & Circadian Biology (Rebroadcast)

And that also collected their light exposure, their physical activity, their sleep. And then not only that, he had to also collect how they were doing at school. So then he had to get access to grades and tardiness, whether the students were actually getting late to school or early to school.

Dhru Purohit Show
Supercharge Your Sleep and Improve Your Longevity Using the Power of Intermittent Fasting & Circadian Biology (Rebroadcast)

And that also collected their light exposure, their physical activity, their sleep. And then not only that, he had to also collect how they were doing at school. So then he had to get access to grades and tardiness, whether the students were actually getting late to school or early to school.

Dhru Purohit Show
Supercharge Your Sleep and Improve Your Longevity Using the Power of Intermittent Fasting & Circadian Biology (Rebroadcast)

The bottom line is what we found was by delaying high school start time by an hour, these two school students got to sleep 34 minutes extra. And what do you think about? So what, 34 minutes? Actually, the best sleeping pill gives you only 15 to 20 minutes extra sleep. This was the outcome was actually much better than the best sleeping pill. Which is what Ambien is where people take something?

Dhru Purohit Show
Supercharge Your Sleep and Improve Your Longevity Using the Power of Intermittent Fasting & Circadian Biology (Rebroadcast)

The bottom line is what we found was by delaying high school start time by an hour, these two school students got to sleep 34 minutes extra. And what do you think about? So what, 34 minutes? Actually, the best sleeping pill gives you only 15 to 20 minutes extra sleep. This was the outcome was actually much better than the best sleeping pill. Which is what Ambien is where people take something?