Welcome back to the energized with Dr. Marisa podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Marisa, and I'm here to help you rock your hormones,

optimize your metabolic health, and feel energized in your body so that you can age powerfully

and wake up feeling amazing in your body for many years to come.

Let's jump on in.

Intermittent fasting continues to be all the rage.

But what if we got the timing wrong?

What if skipping breakfast was not the most ideal for our body?

And what if skipping dinner or having a smaller dinner earlier in the evening

had a greater metabolic impact? Now, current research points to the endless benefits of intermittent

fasting, no matter which one you choose to embark on based on your life, your lifestyle, and your body.

But the most recent research published in JAMA in August of 2022 demonstrated that early

time restricted eating was more effective than eating in a 12-hour window during the day.

Now, the benefits of early time restricted eating include controlling blood sugar,

creating more sensitive insulin levels, enhancing metabolic flexibility, fighting inflammation,

enhancing heart and brain health, weight loss, and

management, prevention of chronic conditions, enhanced sustainable energy, and supporting mood swings,

depression, and anxiety. And here's why. We now know that eating meals during the day,

while the sun is still out, is optimal. And this is because we are in a more thermogenic state,

a more metabolic state during the

day based on our circadian rhythm. Now, since our body's biology hasn't really changed much

since our ancestors thousands of years ago, well before we had electricity and Netflix and we could

...