Podcast

BodyClock Podcast

Two physicians on circadian health, peak performance and the science of time.

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A new season with Drs. Kamyar and Moazzam is in production. Follow the show to get the first episode.

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About the show

BodyClock Podcast is where circadian science meets the way you plan your day. Physicians Royan Kamyar and Alan Moazzam talk with scientists, clinicians, athletes and builders about when to sleep, eat, move and focus, and what the research says about timing your life to your body clock.

Time is the #1 vital sign™

  • Sleep and circadian rhythm
  • Shift work and night shifts
  • Meal timing
  • Peak performance
  • Mental health
  • Digital health and AI
  • Longevity

Your hosts

Royan Kamyar, M.D., MBA

Royan Kamyar, M.D., MBA

Co-host · Founder and CEO, Owaves

As a medical intern in Manhattan, Royan lived medicine’s great irony: treating diseases driven by schedules that override our biology, on a schedule overriding his own. He founded Owaves to make time our #1 vital sign; its BodyClock AI works as a personal circadian coach, finding each user’s best windows for deep sleep, deep work, exercise and meals.

He chairs the Body Clock Institute, and his work has been featured by Reuters, Forbes, The Washington Post and Fox News. A graduate of Baylor College of Medicine and UC San Diego’s Rady School of Management, he spends his off-hours at the chessboard, in the pool with his two daughters and, six times so far, at the World Cup.

Alan Moazzam, M.D., MBA, FACP

Alan Moazzam, M.D., MBA, FACP

Co-host · Hospitalist, UC San Diego Health

Alan is a board-certified internist and hospitalist in the Division of Hospital Medicine at UC San Diego Health. His research interests center on night-shift work: how it affects physician performance and human physiology. He serves on the executive committee of UC San Diego’s Center for Circadian Biology and Medicine and on the board of the Body Clock Institute.

He earned his medical degree at Saint Louis University and trained in internal medicine at USC Los Angeles County Hospital. He works on AI-based clinical support tools with UC San Diego’s Jacobs Center for Health Innovation, speaks English, Spanish and Farsi, and surfs and boxes when he is off service.

From the archive

Before the relaunch, The Body Clock Podcast ran 35 episodes from 2018 to 2021, most of them hosted by Dr. Sohaib Imtiaz with Owaves physicians. Each one has a full transcript on the Owaves blog.

Where it started

Listen to the classic episodes on Spotify

Guests and ideas

Researchers, clinicians, athletes and founders working on the body clock: we would like to hear from you, and from listeners with a question for the show.

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