Time-Restricted Eating and Digestion Insights

We looked at it yesterday too when we looked at diabetes.

They're now discovering that diabetics are managing their blood sugar

levels better on time-restricted eating.

That's eating twice in a 24-hour period,

six hours apart. That's an eight- an 18-hour fast.

Now, if someone has breakfast at 6:00 in the

morning, they're gonna need to eat

about midday, and they might need a little something at

night.

So if something's eaten at night, and I thank the cooks because they've been

feeding us light at night, haven't they?

Light at night gives a better sleep.

Light at night means it's digested quickly, hopefully digested

before you lay down to sleep.

So th- this book, it's called Observations on the

Physiology of Digestion by Dr. William Beaumont.

This came out in 1844. This is not new

news. I think it was the fast food companies

that were behind

the eating every couple of hours.

It didn't make any sense.

But what Dr. Beaumont found

was that there were five things that caused the food to be still in the

stomach eight hours later.

One was

if Alexis St. Martin overate.

You see, only so much food can be broken

down. How many people feel like eating an

evening meal on the 25th of December?

No.

Because usually Christmas dinner is so big

and much richer than what people are used to.

No, no one's interested in eating at the

night.

He discovered that if he ate too much food, the food,

you know, rem- there

were remnants of the food still there eight hours later.

It's not all the food's still there, bits are coming through,

but it just takes,

takes a while to digest if too much goes in, and this was

interesting if he often ate.

So how's that? Dr. Beaumont came to the conclusion

that the pyloric sphincter at the end of the stomach, it has

sensors,

and this is proven by research now.

It has sensors, so when the food comes in,

that pyloric sphincter doesn't open until the food's broken down

to the right state, and then it'll open.

So let's say right now,

um,

it's not that food doesn't come out for three and a half hours, it's

starting to come out usually after a couple of hours.

Little by little by little, the food comes out.

And let's say

10 o'clock in the morning, someone has a cookie

or a muffin or a sandwich or

maybe they're really healthy and it's an apple and a few nuts.

Immediately, pyloric sphincter shuts the gate.

Something's just come in, it's not broken down,

and it's not until that gets broken down, and remember, if

it's starch, that's continuing on for another 15

minutes, and

then it joins,

it joins the remnant of breakfast, and then pyloric

sphincter will open,

and then more goes through.

So now we've got, after a couple of hours, we've only got that much

left, and then lunch comes in. Oh, pyloric sphincter shuts the

gate,

and pyloric sphincter won't open until this

lunch is broken down to what it should be.

And that explains why eight hours later,

if Alexis St. Martin ate every couple of hours,

there were still remnants of breakfast in the stomach.

Number three,

what was the third that caused the food to be still in the

stomach eight hours

later?

If he was stressed.

If he was stressed,

the food delayed digestion,

and the only time Alexis St. Martin might be a little stressed

would be if he'd had alcohol the night before.

Alcohol also delays the digestion.

And the last one

is large fluid with the meal.

Obviously, a mouthful or two is not gonna make a difference, but

large fluid with the meal dilutes the hydrochloric

acid. So what happens now is

digestion's put on hold

to get that water out, to bring the pH back to an

acid pH, and then digestion resumes.

And when you think, I know in Australia

and I know too in America, aren't

they common habits that many partake of?