Dr. Vonda Wright

So every time you're eating, you have a protein and fiber focus.

So you're looking at I'm going to eat during the day when my body needs it.

Yeah.

And I'm going to stop eating when I finish dinner.

So I have about a two, maybe three hour break before I go to bed so that when I go to bed, I'm not trying to digest food.

My body can get into the parasympathetic responses it needs to to sleep well for reparation.

When you wake up in the morning.

And if we bring it into the people holding a fast till noon or after, you're phase shifting.

So it's like you're having social jet lag, where if you're phase shifting your hormone responses, your appetite hormones, then you're not going to get into a good sleep.

Because your body's like, it's not time to go to sleep.

Your melatonin peak in women usually peaks around nine o'clock.

So you start to get sleepy.

That gets shifted to 11, 12.

So you're not actually going to get good sleep because you now have reset your melatonin responses.

So we want women to understand that

Time-restricted eating when you're not eating in the dark is really beneficial.

Easiest way to say it, yeah.

You're fueling for your body during the day because that's when it needs the fuel.

That's when we want to be able to create an environment that's supportive to hormone health, supportive to muscle growth, to brain health, to all the things, and reducing stress when we can control that stress.

So when you start phase shifting and holding fast and creating this stress on a circadian level, knowing that there's a circadian response on every cell as well as a total body circadian rhythm, that if you shift that, then we start seeing a lot of metabolic dysfunction, poor sleep.