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Season 3 – Episode 2: City lights, country nights – Circadian rhythms in urban and rural life

Season 3 – Episode 2: City lights, country nights – Circadian rhythms in urban and rural life

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Light O'Clock

30 Episoden

A podcast on light and your body clock

Wissenschaft Gesundheit & Fitness

Podcaster

mspitschan

How does life in cities versus rural areas shape our circadian
rhythms? How does access to electricity — or the lack of it —
impact sleep timing? And what happens to our circadian rhythms
when we move from an urban setting to camping outside?

Our guest Luísa Klaus Pilz (Charité -
Universitätsmedizin Berlin) comments on field studies
carried out when she was a PhD student and postdoc at the Federal
University of Rio Grande do Sul (Laboratório de Cronobiologia e
Sono - HCPA/UFRGS).

Links and resources related to the episode’s content

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-29494-4

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physiology/articles/10.3389/fphys.2021.773969/full

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(16)31522-6

Timestamps

(00:00) Intro

(00:44) Questions from a Londoner

(03:07) Guest introduction

(03:57) Why care about rural vs urban light?

(07:28) Sleep changes with urbanization

(09:40) The effects of electricity and artificial light

(10:49) Quilombola communities

(16:38) Metabolic health differences

(20:53) Rural occupations and light exposure

(24:00) Other differences in behaviour

(25:22) Adapting to a different environment

(28:27) Future research questions

(31:49) Outro

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