Dan Buettner

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1,467 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Sep 2025 last heard 18 Jan

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Almost always it has more sugar per gram than a Coke container.

So I always like, whoa, you can't just tell people to eat yogurt, can you?

By the way, Kellogg's, which makes cereals, has famously funded the studies, discovering that children need cereal for breakfast.

So there's a little bit of self-interest there in what we've grown up to believe.

But in all the Blue Zones, traditionally speaking, they're eating a whole food, largely plant-based, savory breakfast.

It's delicious.

The advent and the timing of it, you know, in Costa Rica, for example, it's that right at sunrise, which will be six or seven.

But in Loma Linda, a common popular meal pattern is a giant breakfast at 10, which is more like a brunch.

and then what they often call a linner, halfway between lunch and dinner at 4 p.m., and that'll be it.

In the Western world here, I think that's about the healthiest pattern.

You could adjust that up or down an hour either way.

The debate is ongoing whether or not we should be de facto intermittent fasting or restricting our calories.

But I think most of the data would suggest that 12 hours is a minimum.

So in other words, if you eat dinner at, finish dinner at eight, you don't want to start eating until eight o'clock in the morning.

Other evidence suggests you should wait 14 hours.

So that would mean if you're finished eating dinner at eight, the next morning at 10, you're eating your first meal.

Evolution often provides us a good source for insight.

You can imagine our caveman ancestors didn't toddle over to their refrigerator and make a smoothie or have eggs and bacon.

They had to get up and find food or hunt food or at least kind of repurpose the dinner from the night before.

So they're not getting up and eating right away.

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