Dr. Michael Grandner

They're craving pleasurable food, food that feels good to eat, highly palatable food.

And...

especially sort of like the later at night it gets.

I mean, there's a reason why people generally don't crave a salad at two o'clock in the morning.

You know, even if they would during the day, it's your thinking and your emotional reasoning and your choices are fundamentally different, especially between two and five in the morning.

That time seems especially vulnerable.

In our lab, we're studying that vulnerable time.

We're calling it the mind after midnight, like on how you make different choices in that zone.

All kinds of bad things, like suicide spikes in that time.

Four times greater than you would expect by chance than any other time of day.

Spikes in that time.

Violent crime also spikes during that time for maybe different reasons.

But unhealthy eating.

Also, like 3 a.m.

food.

If I tell you this is the kind of food you want to eat at 3 a.m., you know what kind of food I'm talking about.

And it's not healthy food.

Why is that?

Why is that that there's this?

And I don't think this is a pathological thing.