How Eating Habits Impact Sleep Quality and Heart Health with Dr. Marie Pierre St-Onge & Mary Helen Rogers
Mary Helen Rogers is back in the host seat for another episode of Catching Zzz’s.
Today we’re going to be talking to Dr. Marie Pierre St-Onge. She is the founding Director of the Center of Excellence for Sleep & Circadian Research at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
Dr. St-Onge has authored over 200 peer-reviewed publications and is author of Eat Better, Sleep Better: 75 recipes and a 28-day meal plan that unlock the food-sleep connection.
During our conversation, we discuss the links between what we eat and how we sleep, revealing how dietary habits can both help— and hinder— the quality of our rest.
We explore everything from high-fiber foods that promote restorative sleep, to dietary saboteurs like sugar and saturated fats, to strategies for building a more healthful sleep-and-eat cycle.
MEET DR. ST-ONGE
Dr. St-Onge is the founding Director of the Center of Excellence for Sleep & Circadian Research at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. The overall focus of her research program is the study of the impact of lifestyle, specifically sleep and diet, on cardiometabolic health. Dr. St- Onge has been NIH-funded since 2008, conducting innovative, cutting-edge clinical research combining her expertise on sleep, nutrition, and energy balance regulation to address questions related to the role of circadian rhythms, including sleep duration and timing as well as meal timing and eating patterns, on cardiometabolic risk. Dr. St-Onge was Center Director for the American Heart Association funded Go Red for Women Strategically Focused Research Center, aimed at determining the causality of the relation between sleep and cardiovascular disease and the specific role that sleep plays in the health of women throughout the life cycle.
She is a pioneer in this field, having chaired the first scientific statements endorsed by the AHA on sleep and cardiometabolic health as well as meal timing and frequency and cardiovascular disease risk prevention. More recently, she chaired a follow-up scientific statement highlighting the role of multidimensional sleep health for cardiometabolic health. She is a Fulbright Scholar, and the recipient of an NHLBI Outstanding Investigator Award from the National Institutes of Health. Dr. St-Onge has authored over 200 peer-reviewed publications and is author of Eat Better, Sleep Better: 75 recipes and a 28-day meal plan that unlock the food-sleep connection.
