Dr. Marie-Pierre St-Onge: How to Eat for Better Sleep. How Sleep Impacts Your Eating Behaviors. How Slightly Insufficient Sleep Causes Weight-Gain.

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.Support the show