Marie-Pierre St-Onge
Guest on Huberman Lab
Marie-Pierre St-Onge is a Canadian-born nutrition scientist and Professor of Nutritional Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. She is best known for her research on how diet and sleep interact to influence energy balance, obesity, and cardiometabolic risk, including the effects of meal timing and specific foods on sleep quality and metabolism. She currently runs a research program at Columbia Institute of Human Nutrition focused on lifestyle behaviors for body weight control and cardiovascular disease prevention.
Products they talk about
Kefir💬 Mentioned
…studying fermented dairy products for cholesterol and metabolic health effects
“Kefir we studied because it was a fermented dairy product, probiotics. We figured, you know, maybe it will improve cholesterol synthesis based on its impact on short-chain fatty acids. We recruited men that had mildly elevated cholesterol levels. We gave them two cups per day versus just regular milk for a month. There was no effect.”
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MCT oil👍 Recommends
…discussing medium-chain triglycerides for increasing metabolic rate and body composition changes
“The medium chain triglycerides, they travel directly to the liver. They get metabolized. We burn them off more readily than the long chain triglycerides. We found, we did two separate studies in men and women. In both men and women, there was an increase in thermic effect of food. So you burned slightly more calories from the meal that contained medium chain triglycerides compared to the meal that contained your standard fat.”
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