Dr. Michael Snyder

So –

I think it's more complicated than that.

I think, again, the party line will be, well, your glucose is kind of high at night and gradually goes down during the day on spike in the morning.

You get a cortisol spike, as you probably know, when you wake up, and that's normal and that's healthy, helps energize you for the day, and cortisol and glucose are related.

But when you actually look at people's glucose patterns, it's much more complicated than that.

And I think a lot of that has to do with what their subphenotype is.

We don't fully understand this.

We're trying to sort this out.

And what you did the day and especially the evening before, eating that big piece of pizza and then falling right asleep probably is not a great thing for you.

You will go to bed with a high glucose spike for many people.

Again, unless you have perfect glucose control.

So, you know, I think getting your glucose under control, it is a bit of a problem for me.

We tend to eat late in my household just because both my wife and I work kind of late.

And so we tend to eat a little bit later.

But I definitely do better if I can –

try and eat earlier.

And then I definitely don't snack before bedtime, that sort of thing.

And these days I try not to make my biggest meal, my dinner, which again can lead you into sleep with that.

And we always take a walk.

We have dogs and walk our dog after dinner.