by | Apr 18, 2024 | Nutrition
Harness the power of your circadian rhythms for weight loss by making breakfast or lunch your main meal of the day. In my last chronobiology video, we learned that calories eaten at breakfast are significantly less fattening than the same number of calories eaten at...
by | Apr 16, 2024 | Nutrition
Raw garlic is compared to roasted, stir-fried, simmered, and jarred garlic. Garlic lowers blood pressure, regulates cholesterol, and stimulates immunity. I’ve talked before about its effect on heart disease risk factors, but what about immunity? Eating garlic appears...
by | Apr 11, 2024 | Nutrition
A calorie is not a calorie. It isn’t only what you eat, but when you eat. Mice are nocturnal creatures. They eat during the night and sleep during the day. However, if you only feed mice during the day, they gain more weight than if they were fed a similar amount of...
by | Apr 9, 2024 | Nutrition
Given the power of chronotherapy—how the same dose of the same drugs taken at a different time of day can have such different effects—it’s no surprise that chronoprevention approaches, like meal timing, can also make a difference. The 2017 Nobel Prize in Medicine was...
by | Apr 4, 2024 | Nutrition
Dairy consumption is associated with years of advanced ovarian aging, thought to be due to the steroid hormones or endocrine-disrupting chemicals in cow’s milk. When it comes to the amount of steroid hormones we are exposed to in the food supply, dairy “milk...
by | Apr 2, 2024 | Nutrition
Breakthroughs in the field of chronobiology—the study of our circadian rhythms—help solve the mystery of the missing morning calories in breakfast studies. Where did this whole “breakfast is the most important meal of the day” concept come from? “The Father of Public...
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