Our Website: https://www.findinggeniuspodcast.com/ Subscribe and review our Podcast on iTunes: https://apple.co/2L6tN88 Follow us on: Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/futuretechpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/finding_genius Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/findinggeniuspodcast/ Professor John Hogenesch studies circadian rhythms and the genome. He talks about 1. The influence of cues on our circadian rhythm and how lighting and even medication timing can affect us, 2. Studies on hospital-specific lighting and how two new hospital wings in Cincinnati are designed accordingly, and 3. Some unusual sleep patterns, such as Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome, and how it can affect people. Dr. John Hogenesch is Professor of Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in Human Genetics and Immunobiology at the University of Cincinnati Department of Pediatrics. He specializes in genome biology with a focus on the molecular mechanisms of circadian rhythms in mammals. He explains to listeners the basics of circadian rhythm as a daily rhythm of behavior and physiology that persists in the absence of external cues. He discusses how healthcare and specifically hospital design and schedules are often at odds with most patients’ rhythms. In fact, he mentions one study in which NICU patients under a cycled light schedule went home two weeks earlier than babies under constant dimmed light conditions. He discusses his hospital’s design of two new areas for NICU and PICU patients under the advisement of his lab that will integrate beds with circadian natural-light systems. He adds ways in which medication delivery and procedure timing could also be better paired with circadian rhythms and efforts to do so. Dr. Hogenesch also talks about Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome (DSPS). Richard has such a sleep pattern and the two discuss how it manifests itself, as well as other sleep patterns, and how they affect those who experience them. He also addresses how cortisol’s peak has an effect as well as how external cues interfere or work with our sleep patterns. For example, he mentions our eating timing, light exposure, and light temperature and type. He discusses how the pandemic is pushing many of us to later sleep schedules and possible hypothesizes for why. Along the way he offers some suggestions for eliminating excessive blue and green light and other similar measures. For more, see his lab page at cincinnatichildrens.org/research/divisions/h/genetics/labs/hogenesch and the Society for Research in Biological Rhythms, which publishes helpful blog posts and articles. Available on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/2Os0myK #Genetics #Genome #circadiantiming #Findinggeniuspodcast #Healthpodcast #Medicinepodcast #Bioscience ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fIa2LuEIVM

Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/30PvU9C Checkout FGP Website: https://www.findinggeniuspodcast.com/ SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW our Podcast on iTunes: https://apple.co/2L6tN88 Follow us on: Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/futuretechpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/finding_genius Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/findinggeniuspodcast/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/finding-genius-podcast/ Timestamps: 00:00 FGP Intro 00:37 CODEX Fundraiser 01:58 Guest Introduction 02:16 About work at USDA 04:52 El Nino and La Nina 09:08 Proposed Solutions for Water 13:38 Looking at Crops and Observation 17:36 Groundwater Problems 21:59 Areas That Are Most Susceptible to Fire 23:54 Issues That Are Important For California 25:03 Learn More About What USDA is Doing What does the future hold for us in the scope of near-future climate change? From drought to fire, new solutions are needed now more than ever. Listen up to learn: 1. The difference between El Niño and La Niña 2. The California crops which significantly affect its climate 3. How groundwater recharge can help reverse adverse effects Dr. Steven Ostoja is the director of the USDA California Climate Hub and has joined the conversation to share his experience battling climate change and to share a dire warning on what is to come. Climate change has been an ongoing and widely known issue but has been altogether ignored for far too long. From the prospect of serious drought to the increasing severity of fires, the consequences will only continue to grow if no action is taken. Using new technologies that can sense the areas of greatest benefits, groundwater recharge may hold the promise of protection from drought and pad our reserves moving forward. However, if fire management is not improved or rethought, relief may be difficult to come by, especially if suppression remains the primary solution. Visit https://www.climatehubs.usda.gov for more information. Episode also available on Apple Podcast: http://apple.co/30PvU9C #Climatechange #NatureCrisis #ClimateCrisis ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-aRKFHCiLM