Dr. Rhonda Patrick

well, the glucose is from your food or from gluconeogenesis, the process of making glucose from other materials like glycerol, for example, or amino acids.

Usually it's from the food or glycogen, stored as glycogen. But the point is that those glucose transporters that come up to the muscle stay there for like 48 hours. And so your body becomes very, all the glucose that you're eating for the next two days is getting taken up into your muscle very effectively and efficiently.

Usually it's from the food or glycogen, stored as glycogen. But the point is that those glucose transporters that come up to the muscle stay there for like 48 hours. And so your body becomes very, all the glucose that you're eating for the next two days is getting taken up into your muscle very effectively and efficiently.

And so the net effect is, you know, this high intensity interval training is getting that glucose out of your bloodstream and bringing it to your muscle where you want it. And so if you go back to the sleep story, you know, and there's multiple studies showing this, that people that even do high intensity interval training before they're sleep-deprived, or they do it after they're sleep-deprived.

And so the net effect is, you know, this high intensity interval training is getting that glucose out of your bloodstream and bringing it to your muscle where you want it. And so if you go back to the sleep story, you know, and there's multiple studies showing this, that people that even do high intensity interval training before they're sleep-deprived, or they do it after they're sleep-deprived.

It doesn't matter. If you're doing it within a 48-hour window or so of getting less sleep, what's happening is your glucose regulation resets, right? Because you're causing that stress on your muscle to make more of those transporters, and so glucose gets taken in better. And then it also affects insulin signaling as well. So there's a lot of other ways that it's happening.

It doesn't matter. If you're doing it within a 48-hour window or so of getting less sleep, what's happening is your glucose regulation resets, right? Because you're causing that stress on your muscle to make more of those transporters, and so glucose gets taken in better. And then it also affects insulin signaling as well. So there's a lot of other ways that it's happening.

So those studies have been done and with respect to the metabolism, yes, doing it before for sure it's going to affect. Now, if you're talking about cognition and brain function, I would say unfortunately you're going to want to do it the next day after you've been sleep deprived before your meeting.

So those studies have been done and with respect to the metabolism, yes, doing it before for sure it's going to affect. Now, if you're talking about cognition and brain function, I would say unfortunately you're going to want to do it the next day after you've been sleep deprived before your meeting.

Right then.

Right then.

Yeah, right then.

Yeah, right then.

You're like, where am I going?

You're like, where am I going?

Do you have 10 minutes? Because that's what's been shown. 10 minutes. of high intensity interval training can improve blood flow to the brain. It improves memory. It improves cognition. And it only took 10 minutes to do it. So maybe not the 30 minutes, but 10 minutes.

Do you have 10 minutes? Because that's what's been shown. 10 minutes. of high intensity interval training can improve blood flow to the brain. It improves memory. It improves cognition. And it only took 10 minutes to do it. So maybe not the 30 minutes, but 10 minutes.

Not like a CrossFit style.

Not like a CrossFit style.

Not like a full on, like the hardest thing that you usually do when you're on your game, but like 10 minutes, right? Go on 10 minutes, get on a Peloton or a bike or whatever. And you do a 10 minute, whatever your program is. And it will, I do it all the time.