Cass

Anyway, so I did this testing experiment

And I don't usually eat this way, but I wanted to see and it was surprising the impact on my sleep.

I went out to dinner, so about six o'clock before dinner.

I don't often drink alcohol either, but I had a pina colada cocktail full of sugar, which I didn't realise.

And then I specifically, I don't often eat pasta since dinner.

probably 15 years because I just always feel sluggish with it.

But I said, okay, I'm going to see what it does when I eat a penne boscaiola.

I ate probably half of the serve of pasta, bit of garlic bread.

But to add on top of that, probably about eight o'clock at night, I had a Nutella filled donut.

So probably over the course of two hours stacking the carbs,

Of course, you see the glucose spike started to come down, then a really big spike.

But what I noticed that was different to every other night when I hadn't stuck the carbs at night was the glucose stayed high.

It was still in normal range, but it was really high and bumping up and down around the high range for me all night until about 3, 4 o'clock in the morning, whereas usually it stabilised and went low overnight.

And so I noticed that and I had a terrible sleep that night and that sort of corroborated with it.

That was my own personal experiment that sort of ties into what you're talking about.

And as you were saying, try and eat a few hours before bed because your body needs to be focusing on the rest and digestion instead of having that insulin response and glucose response.

I was so shocked like to see it on the graph and it was terrible.

You've been looking at the meal timing.

And as you said, society is not always set up to be able to eat in a window that sort of finishes around 5, 6 p.m.

Has any of the research looked at what the implications are for people doing shift work, maybe nursing, policing, first responders, mining?