Meal Timing
In This Lab...
Orientation to Meal Timing
Listen
Introduction
Flawed Theories & Twisted "Obvious" Facts
Why Meal Timing Matters
Order & Eating
Timing & Frequency in Eating
Variability
Sensitivity
Intermittent Fasting & Metabolic Switching
Habits to Improve System-Wide Order, Timing, Variability & Sensitivity
Cautions, Concerns & Considerations
Conclusion
Key Takeaways
Meal Timing: A Daily Checklist
Printable Meal Timing Checklist
Key Habits
Meal Timing Checklist
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AT A GLANCE
Most understand that what they eat is important, yet few understand the actual importance of when they eat. Meal timing dictates when we are “feeding and fed” and when we are fasting. These two physiological states are as unique and critical to our function and well-being as our wake and sleep cycles. It’s difficult to think of any system that isn’t significantly impacted by meal timing and the timing and function cues it provides for essential metabolic functions. We have developed this Lab to guide you through the safe, practical explorations that will lead you to understand the impressive impact that the timing of your meals has on your shape, function, and performance. It will provide you with the insights and tools to determine the timing which best serves you and your specific goals.
HEALTH SCENE INVESTIGATION
- How clearly do you understand why meal timing is important and what critical metabolic processes it influences?
- How extensively have you explored how shifting your meal timing and lengthening your daily fasting cycles impacts how you feel and function?
- Have you explored how lengthening your fasting cycle from your last meal in your day until your first the next day influences any signs or symptoms of inflammation and how it effects your body composition? If you have not, prepare to be very pleasantly surprised.
HYPOTHESIS
Meal timing, similar to light and dark cycles, is an important cue for body clocks in key tissues and influences many critical metabolic processes. It’s not simply a new fad. It matters, a lot. Engaging this Lab and its partner Labs will guide you to understand how to explore the benefits of regular mealtimes and optimize the time you spend in a fasting state each evening. As you do so you will experience measurable and meaningful changes in how you feel and function. Most notably, you will find your shape, body composition and energy improve and you will be less inflamed. Engaging your vitality and well-being assessments at regular intervals will enable you to document and monitor these changes.