Dr. Ben Bikman

No, it doesn't disrupt the family dynamic at all.

The kids are eating, we're talking, and I'm sipping on my cup of yerba mate while we're helping get lunch ready and everything else.

It's not at all disruptive.

And then lunch, I'm at work, I have whatever lunch I'm going to have, and that'll be my biggest meal of the day.

But...

As much as I am absolutely a fan of being careful with dinner because the evidence is so supportive of it, I also recognize that it's the trickiest meal because of social dynamics, family dynamics.

But insofar as you can eat earlier,

then just stop eating.

The very best you can do, whether it's drinking some apple cider vinegar or having something bitter in your mouth to reduce the sweet cravings, because bitter tastings can reduce sweet cravings, I would say do it.

Whatever tool, whatever leveraging you need in the evening to not crave or snack on junk,

Do it.

So even back to the glucose mechanism, another reason to not go to bed hyperglycemic is it disrupts the melatonin rhythm at the same time.

It's an ugly little battle.

Yep, yeah, Why We Get Sick.

Why We Get Sick.

Yeah, Why We Get Sick and then a follow-up companion, How Not To Get Sick.

How Not To Get Sick, that's to be coming soon.

No, it's out.

I'm writing a third book.

We'll do that next time.