Dr. Ben Bikman

It's because you went to bed hyperglycemic.

But unfortunately, that is the one time of day where people are at their weakest, and I'm very sympathetic to that because I feel the same thing.

People can walk past treats and junk food all day and deny themselves that, knowing that it's not good for them.

But the moment 6 o'clock comes around or 7 o'clock comes

But then all of a sudden, the temptation starts to take on a new form and they indulge.

And that is the worst time.

It would be better for them to indulge in that at lunch, for example, than it would be at that point of the day.

Not only metabolically and in maintaining good insulin sensitivity, but not to mention sleep.

And then the compounding consequences of poor sleep just creates this vicious cycle.

Yeah.

And you will get hungry.

So as much as we highlighted that 2021 study, what I ought to have done is highlight the work of Dr. David Ludwig.

Kara Ebeling and others and Shai et al in New England Journal of Medicine in 2012, where there are so many decades worth of evidence showing that as much as we had that one study suggesting, well, the insulin, higher insulin group didn't have less hunger.

Yeah, there's a lot of evidence showing the opposite.

So you end up creating this roller coaster of glycemia and hunger where the person eats a starchy, sugary breakfast, which let's face it, most breakfasts are these days.

They have this big spike, and then when you go high, you inevitably go low, and then when you go low, hunger comes again.

Even though you may still literally have food in your stomach, and yet your brain is starting to sense, well, I'm hungry, because the overall amount of energy in the blood has gone down, even though there's plenty of stuff still in the stomach.

But it stimulates hunger.

That's David Ludwig's main contributions.

So anyway, it puts the person on this roller coaster of glycemia,