Dr. Rhonda Patrick

So the meal frequency, it sounds like the more each time you're having an insulin response, that insulin is then you're getting into the fat storage.

Right.

And the difference between, you know, this sugary type of like breakfast you're talking about and perhaps like something that's more of a complex carbohydrate would be the fiber is slowing that glucose response and causing some satiety as well.

So that would be something that you would contrast.

Not to mention even in that study in 2021, they probably were doing more complex carbohydrates and not.

Right.

I want to talk about you talked you sort of alluded to this and this has to do with the other contributing factors to insulin resistance.

And you're talking about this in the context of if you're late night eating, it can disrupt your sleep.

Yeah.

And, you know, for many reasons, you're also, you talked about some very interesting stuff that I hadn't really thought about before.

But also you're digesting, you know, when your systems are all activated.

Yeah, that's thermic effect of food.

Yeah, you're hot.

Exactly.

So, I mean, it makes perfect sense.

And, in fact, I remember a friend of mine, Dr. Sachin Panda, he's done a lot of research on time-restricted eating and he's got this app.

Um, my circadian clock where people were, you know, uploading pictures of their meals and it was timestamped and they're putting comments and like the most, one of the most common comments he was getting was, um, is disrupting sleep.

Eating later was disrupting sleep.

And finally it was like, like, he's like, got to look into this.

I mean, there's like,