Eat More Calories in the Morning than the Evening | NutritionFacts.org Why are calories eaten in the morning less fattening than calories eaten in the evening? nutritionfacts.org
Great Information!
This is excellent information on the relationship of Circadian Rhythm to diet.
The nice thing about these videos is they are "Bit Size", providing the "Cliff Notes" in 6 minutes or less.
I previously posted the importance on it in regard to training; posted
below in red. Morning Workouts and Warming-up
Circadian Rhythm
This has to do with your body's cyclical rhythm of your body temperature. Your body temperature fluctuates minutely during the day. However, small fluctuations are big numbers.
Some interesting information on this is from Charlie Francis (one of the greatest Sprint Coaches) about...
"Those Whacky East Germans
"The East Germans understood the role of additional heat when an extensive review of world record performances revealed how often the record setter was at the early stages of a cold and running a fever when the record was set. (Later into the cold, the adverse effects outweigh the benefits, of course.) This led the East Germans to experiment with de-natured viruses to generate a slight fever immediately prior to a world record attempt!"
Source: High Octane Training 2 | T Nation
Your Circadian Rhythm is genetic. It determines if your are a...
Early Bird or Night Owl
Early Birds perform best in the morning; their body temperature is elevated then. They are less efficient in the evening.
Night Owls perform best later in the day and evening; there body temperature is elevated then. They are less efficient in the morning.
Training Time Recommendations
One of the recommendations for optimizing your training is to do so later in the day when your body temperature (Circadian Rhythm) is at it highest. The problem with this is that it is based on statistics.
There is a greater population of individual whose body temperature is elevated later in the day rather than early in the morning.
Thus, someone like myself, an Early Bird (who's body temperature elevated early) preform much better than later in the day.
The Take Home Message
Optimal training occurs when your body temperature is at it highest.
One method of determining that is to, upon waking take your temperature. Then continue to take it every three hours throughout the day. Doing that for three say will give you the answer.
However, there is...
A More Practical Method
All taking your body temperature reading is going to do is tell you what you already know.
Most people know what time of the the day they are at their best and what times of the day they want to take a nap.
Medication and Circadian Rhythm
Research also has demonstrated the effectiveness of taking a medication has to do with you body temperature's Circadian Rhythm.
Medication, as with eating and exercise, is more effective when dialed into your Circadian Rhythm.
Delayed School Start Times
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Research has demonstrated that delaying the school starts improves students performance; which has to do with their body temperature's Circadian Rhythm.
This brings us to...
Eating Based on Circadian Rhythm
If we follow the premise that eating, taking medications, exercising, kids learning in schools, making important decisions, etc are most effective when your body temperature is at it highest...
It would appear that a Night Owl's "Mornings" would be later in the day, when they wake up.
It doesn't make much sense to me that individual who gets up a bit later or a Night Owl, who get up really late, should force themselves to get up early and eat.
Dr Michael Greger's information in the videos never stated that. However, some individual might come to that conclusion.
To Reiterate
Your Circadian Rhythm is genetic, you cannot change; no more than you could change your eye color from brown to blue or green.
What individual need to do is find way of implementing information like this based genetics and who they are.