Dr. Michael Snyder

And what we found is that, first of all, some simple things already known is that if you have your bigger meal first thing in the morning, you generally have lower glucose and not later at night.

So people had their biggest meal, their biggest energy consumption later in the day as dinner, which is awkward socially because that's what most of us have our big meal or many of us do.

Those folks will have a higher glucose.

And starchy vegetables is well known.

Those folks have higher glucose.

But interesting, fruits.

People ate a lot of fruits as their major source of carbs had lower.

That's because of the fiber that's in there that helps them.

Turns out most people don't get enough sleep.

And so those who slept longer actually had lower glucose.

But some of the things we could tease out were –

When should you exercise?

If you look at the party line out there from various studies, well, you should exercise in the afternoon to get your best benefit.

But we found that that depends on the form of dysregulation you have.

If your muscle is resistant, you actually get better benefit by exercising in the morning for glucose the next day.

Right.

So to unpack that a little bit, so you probably know that, you know, you eat something, you get glucose if it's sugary, and your insulin obviously, you know, helps control that, stimulates your cells and take that up.

And if you're insulin resistant, especially muscle insulin, because muscle is a major consumer of glucose, means you're not taking up your glucose right.

So you're insulin resistant and you don't take up glucose and you wind up with high glucose spikes.

But there are other forms of diabetes.