Why When You Eat Is More Important Than What You Eat! #382

Heal Thy Self with Dr. G

Heal Thy Self

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

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🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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This episode explores chrono-nutrition, the science of aligning meal timing with your body's natural rhythms (circadian clock). Studies show that eating breakfast is linked to significantly greater weight loss and improved metabolic health compared to eating dinner. The episode emphasizes the importance of understanding your chronotype (Lion, Bear, Wolf, or Dolphin) to optimize meal timing for better energy, digestion, sleep, and overall well-being. Irregular eating patterns disrupt internal clocks, leading to issues like insulin resistance, poor sleep, and weight gain. #weightloss #diet #wellness ==== Thank You To Our Sponsors! Birch Check out birchliving.com/healthyself and use my exclusive code BIRCHPARTNER27 to get 27% off plus 2 free pillows with your mattress purchase during their Memorial Day Sale. Puori Click here https://puori.com/drg and use code DRG for 20% off the already discounted subscription prices. ==== Show Notes: 00:00:00 - Eat in Sync with Chronotype 03:14 - Chrono-Nutrition Basics 06:27 - Circadian Rhythms & Nutrition 12:43 - Early Eating Benefits 15:48:09 - Chronotype & Weight Loss 22:04 - Chronotype Diets & Timing 30:36 - Chronotypes: Lions, Bears, etc Be sure to like and subscribe to #HealThySelf Hosted by Doctor Christian Gonzalez N.D. Follow Doctor G on Instagram @doctor.gonzalez https://www.instagram.com/doctor.gonzalez/ Sign up for our newsletter! https://drchristiangonzalez.com/newsletter/

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0:00.0	So what is healthier for your body eating a big breakfast or a big dinner? Well, actually,
0:04.8	there was a study in the Obesity Journal 2013 and researchers compared two groups of women
0:10.0	eating the same amount of calories per day. Group one ate the majority of their calories at
0:14.8	breakfast and group two ate the majority of calories at dinner. What was the result? The breakfast
0:20.4	group lost 2.5 times
0:22.5	more weight. They had better insulin sensitivity, reduced triglycerides by 33%. And the dinner group,
0:29.3	they actually had a rise in blood sugar and cortisol markers. So what does that tell us? It's not
0:34.1	just about how many calories you eat. It's about how your body is metabolically primed. Your
0:39.9	insulin is most sensitive in the morning. Your cortisol naturally rises. It helps you burn
0:45.3	fuel earlier. Eating late overrides a system. We want to avoid that.
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1:10.2	Let's get started.
1:11.2	If you thrive on early morning, big breakfasts and you shut down your food by early evening,
1:17.6	you might be a lion. Or if you don't want to eat until noon and forcing early meals really
1:22.6	empties your tank, you might be a wolf. Lions, bears, wolves, and dolphins, these are your
1:27.7	chronotype representations, your body's natural rhythms that tell you when to eat, sleep,
1:32.9	when you're primed to burn fat, or when you're primed to store it. And if you're not eating in sync
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