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What would we be looking at?

So those markers and your metabolic health is important to pay attention to because there are things that we can modify in our lifestyle to improve those markers and then hopefully lessen the chance of cardiovascular disease.

We're going to get on to some of your research about meal timing and how that can help people with their metabolic health.

But before we get there, we don't have enough time today to cover in depth those markers of metabolic health that you just talked about.

but one that is very common, I think, for people to talk about because the prevalence of diabetes is becoming more significant and more common, especially in Western society.

So I thought we might have a little bit more of a discussion on the interplay of glucose and insulin and what's happening in the body and why it's important to pay attention to this.

If you could please explain what typically happens in the body when we're eating with regard to glucose and insulin and why this is a really important marker to pay attention to because of potential downstream effects.

So with that response, when you eat a meal and your glucose, it's normal for it to rise.

And then the pancreas produces the insulin to level out the blood glucose.

Is it true?

Like I've heard some people say that if you're going to eat carbs, eat less refined carbohydrates, but is there something to eating them during the day as opposed to later in the evening?

Like, is there a different response with the insulin during the day as opposed to nighttime?

Just before we move on to your work on meal timing, can you maybe quickly explain a bit more about what we mean by circadian rhythms, what's happening in the body, just so people can understand what we're talking about?

And then because everything's interconnected, there's flow on effects, downstream effects from shifting your meals to later and just eating whenever we want to kind of thing.

Everyone would be familiar with when we're looking at metabolic health, specifically looking at management of weight.

Everyone, I think, would be familiar with restricting calories.

But your work is looking at meal timing and the impact that that can have for our metabolic health.

If you could please explain some of your research, some of the findings, what you guys know about how meal timing can impact our health.

rest and digest my own.

I want to talk some more about that, but I will just give you the personal anecdote of a couple of weeks ago, I was wearing the CGM for 10 days just to see what my glucose spikes were like, but more likely to see how fast it was dropping.