The Circadian Code: Lose Weight, Supercharge Your Energy, and Transform Your Health from Morning to Midnight: Longevity Book Paperback – February 11, 2020

“The Circadian Code” is a must read for everyone as it teaches very simple habits we should incorporate into our daily routine from childhood to old age to stay healthy and reverse diseases.The introduction cleverly sucks you in with Dr. Panda’s own story of how he got interested in the field. It is interesting to read how simple curiosity in everyday life from his days in the farm and in long winter nights in Manitoba made him wander into the field of circadian rhythm. With his personal story in a few introductory pages he nicely leads you to the wisdom of circadian rhythms.Once you start, it is hard to put the book down. I must admit, I woke up late into the night and might have broken my circadian rhythms while reading the book. The chapters are well organized and they run in good pace. He explains the complicated science with simple analogy that makes sense and are convincing. He peppers each chapter with epidemiological data showing a clear link between circadian disruption and disease, clinical studies and then at the end he gives you the right solution that can be easily implemented in everyone’s life. This thread runs through all of his chapters.I had no idea that the simple timing of our everyday activity, sleep and eating has such enormous impact on health. After reading the book, one feels empowered that doing simple things to strengthen your circadian clock can give you the key to healthy long disease-free life. Even if you fall sick, I had no idea that when we take medications can cure or crush you. I wish he had given more information on when to take which medications for best benefits. But, I guess not much research is done in this field.Most health and wellness books first scare the hell out of the readers about what they are doing wrong and then offer one solution that can fix all. Instead, this book lays out how our current lifestyle is against what we are built for and it does not promise a single solution for all diseases. Rather it has nice strategies for managing light, managing sleep, managing diet, optimizing activity and managing timing of everything you do on a daily basis. Anyone can adopt one or more these strategies and see substantial improvements in health and reversal of diseases.After reading the book, we have adopted several things from the book in our family. I have also highly recommended the book to all my relatives and friends. Following some of the advice in this book not only helped everyone in my family including my teenage sons improve their wellbeing, it also brought the family together. When you try to optimize your circadian code, everyone’s codes come together and the whole family get to spend more time together. Among my family, friends and relatives we are finding substantial improvement in mood, losing weight, reduced heart burn, better sleep, better blood pressure control, much improved blood sugar, less bowel disease and increase in energy level during the day.What I like the most about this book is, unlike many other diet or wellness books, it costs nothing to adopt a circadian optimized life. The only thing one has to spend is to buy this book. Worth every penny and you may not have to read another health book for years.

This is an wonderful book. The author not only writes from his first hand research and experience, but he also includes an incredible amount of research from other people which is very clearly organized, clearly well organized, and clearly presented. Everything is very well documented and it's great to finally find a weight loss guide, and a guide to overall good health, that is not just another person's opinion.I am super-impressed with this book. It is encyclopedic in it's presentation of all the facts that support the intermittent fasting outlook and method. It would have taken me years to discover them on my own much less to understand them all and synthesize them.I was going to try intermittent fasting on my own but a friend said I should read this book. I'm so glad I did. It has made a huge difference in my life. I've slowly and steadily lost about 20 lbs and I'm feeling much better. I've also let go of a lot of the guilt, suffering and unhappiness that I carried along with the extra weight.

A great book with a lot of useful and practical information. I think it would be especial interesting for those who are at the beginning of their journey to a healthier version of oneself. The book provides lots of practical guidelines and steps to take to improve general well-being. It's easy to read and well structured.The only reason for 4 instead of 5 is that it gets repetitive occasionally.

I saw a sleep doctor who had me spend the night in lab hooked up to electrodes, and then analyzed my sleep. Unfortunately, I have sleep issues—specifically, I wake frequently throughout the night. My doctor said that my issues aren’t severe enough for medication. Instead, he recommended that I read what he described as the best book ever written on how to get a better night’s sleep: The Circadian Code. In it, Dr. Satchin Panda teaches that for a better life, we must follow our body’s circadian rhythm. To do that, we follow four principles. First, only eat during an eight-hour window (so, fast for 16 hours) each day. Second, get proper exercise. Third, get plenty of light when the sun comes up, preferably outdoors, and turn off the lights, including all devices, a few hours before bed. Fourth, maximize sleep hygiene, such as going to bed and getting up at the same time each day. I didn’t spoil this book for you. Those are the basic principles. But the details matter and will likely improve lots of aspects of your life. For me, I’m sleeping better, stronger in my workouts, and generally have more energy. I highly recommend this life-changing book.

A lot of information and very insightful.

It's great to learn from a scientist who is one of the people making the discoveries. He's not trying to sell a product. He's just sharing what he has discovered so we can improve our health and life. No crazy diets, no push to buy a product. I've read it twice and shared it with friends. I've implemented a number of the recommendations and I can say I've experienced some immediate improvements. It is definitely worth the time to read.