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The same meal eaten at the wrong time of day can double blood sugars.


We've known for more than a half century now that our "glucose tolerance" declines as the day goes on––meaning the ability of your body to keep blood sugars under control. If you hook yourself up to an IV, and just drip sugar water into your vein at a steady pace throughout the day, at about 8pm your blood sugars start to go up, even though you haven't eaten anything and the infusion rate didn't change. The same amount of sugar is going into your system every minute, but your ability to handle it deteriorates in the evening, but bounces right back in the morning. A meal eaten at 8pm can cause twice the blood sugar response as an identical meal eaten at 8am. It's as if you ate twice as much!...