Dr. Annette Bosworth

And boy, when their memory isn't going well, when their friends are dying of memory problems.

You know, I don't like using fear tactics.

I don't think they last very long.

But it is such a reality of poor performance that I can't do that.

I cannot eat at 10.30 at night.

So now it's going to take that metabolic curve and in order to store all of the part that gets stored and then turn the part into fat that needs to be tucked away and get back to baseline, it's going to be eight hours, at least eight hours.

Right.

Right.

Well, you missed one part.

The sun will rise.

When the sun rises, even if you're in solitary confinement, you cannot see the sun.

Your brain knows that the sun just went up and cortisol rises.

Okay.

Cortisol leaves your brain, goes to the liver and says, you know that stored sugar, that glycogen?

Release.

You make glucose first thing in the morning.

How much glucose?

Depends on how insulin resistant you are.

So you're going to have an uneaten meal when you wake up in the morning.

Glucose has been stored for this purpose.