Dr. Casey Means

biochemical milieu in your body throughout the day.

It's kind of similar to the walking, you know, it's like you are then stimulating insulin several more times.

You are exposing the bloodstream to insulin and glucose just more throughout the day.

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And giving the bloodstream less of an opportunity to just sort of be clear from that glucose and that insulin.

And so compressing our eating window seems to be helpful for metabolic health.

And it's a bang for your buck, right?

Like you can eat the same amount of food.

You just have to eat in a shorter period of time.

So for people who want to eat a lot, maybe just consider compressing it into daytime hours, six to eight hour window.

Absolutely, and the methods were very poor in that study.

It was a recall-based study, I think, for two days of recall of people's diets, which is notoriously very bad in terms of accuracy.

So, yeah, and I think I'm not in any way suggesting that a six-hour window is the optimal window.

I'm just sharing the data that suggests that compressing the window –

seems to have a favorable effect.

And I certainly don't do six hours.

But I think when you look at what the average American is doing, which is the average American has 11 eating events per day, and 50% of Americans eat over a 15-hour window per day.

I can recall those because I remember when I was writing the book, I was like, that's a long time, 15 hours and 11 events.

And every time you're doing that, you're going to be stimulating this glucose rise in the bloodstream, exposing the blood vessels to that glucose.

You're going to be turning on all the pathways with insulin to basically store it.