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<blockquote data-quote="Dennis" data-source="post: 7999" data-attributes="member: 1338"><p>Hi Luceo,</p><p></p><p>Where on earth did you hear that your metabolism shuts down at 8 to 9 pm? This is one of the oldest old wives tales!! Your metabolism works 24 hours a day, just in different ways at different times of the day. In the hotter Mediterranean countries it is normal for people to not have their evening meal until the evening starts to cool at around 9 to 10pm.</p><p></p><p>One of the most common problems that diabetics have (particularly type 2s) is high morning sugar readings - the dawn effect, which is where the liver starts releasing glucose into the blood (gluconeogenesis) around 12 hours after your last meal. This is a perfectly normal metabolic function and has nothing to do with food lying undigested in the gut - because that can't happen! The recommended (and medically approved) solution to this is to eat a small high protein and low carb snack immediately before going to bed (something like a cube of cheese and a handful of nuts). This gets the digestive system going and fools the body into thinking that it has just been fed, which means that gluconeogenesis will be put off for another 12 hours, by which time you will have eaten breakfast.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dennis, post: 7999, member: 1338"] Hi Luceo, Where on earth did you hear that your metabolism shuts down at 8 to 9 pm? This is one of the oldest old wives tales!! Your metabolism works 24 hours a day, just in different ways at different times of the day. In the hotter Mediterranean countries it is normal for people to not have their evening meal until the evening starts to cool at around 9 to 10pm. One of the most common problems that diabetics have (particularly type 2s) is high morning sugar readings - the dawn effect, which is where the liver starts releasing glucose into the blood (gluconeogenesis) around 12 hours after your last meal. This is a perfectly normal metabolic function and has nothing to do with food lying undigested in the gut - because that can't happen! The recommended (and medically approved) solution to this is to eat a small high protein and low carb snack immediately before going to bed (something like a cube of cheese and a handful of nuts). This gets the digestive system going and fools the body into thinking that it has just been fed, which means that gluconeogenesis will be put off for another 12 hours, by which time you will have eaten breakfast. [/QUOTE]
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