Dr. Michael Grandner

Because adenosine itself isn't sedating.

It builds across the day and interfaces with that system.

But the adenosine itself, like you can't like take adenosine and fall asleep.

Like it's, that's not how it works.

So maybe different, you know, humans are humans.

We're all different.

And, you know, our wire and some of the, sometimes some people, their system might be hooked in, in a different way.

You're talking about like one person here and a person there and like getting 20 of them to come into the lab all at the same time and look at a systematic evaluation.

I don't know that anyone's ever really done, to be honest.

It's more like clinical reports.

Yeah, I could do this and sleep fine.

And I've seen people who drink coffee at night and their sleep looks fine.

So like, who knows?

Yeah.

I mean, so, so he is the world's leading expert on that, on that issue of the timing and, and he tells, um,

these incredible stories about how just the cellular machinery of transporting glucose fuel into the cell is partially clock dependent.

And, and from the first bite of the day, once that machinery starts, it has a certain window of maximum efficiency that just, that only fades.

Like it's, it's fascinating work.

But as a psychologist, I,

I have other perspectives on this as well, where a lot of times people don't eat at night for metabolic reasons.