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> stop eating 12 hours before breakfast in your destination's time zone > If I'm up against a deadline and need to put in a couple extra hours or pull an all-n
by javert 11y ago
> stop eating 12 hours before breakfast in your destination's time zone
> If I'm up against a deadline and need to put in a couple extra hours or pull an all-nighter, I'll skip two or three meals.
What is the underlying model to you that unifies these two cases?
I can't tell whether you're saying
(a) your body learns to become alert when food is going to become available, and to sleep otherwise, or
(b) If you starve yourself, you get really alert for a while, which also enentually tires you out, helping you to go to sleep after that.
Or possibly something else.
- modoc 11y agoI believe what he's saying is that when your body is hungry, it will stay awake/alert longer (in order to hunt/gather food so you don't starve). I've noticed the same thing for myself.
- frivoal 11y agoIt's (a). If you get substantial food while you were starving, your body will guess that this time of the day is a good one to be awake at, in case the food source is available every day at the same time. So a solid breakfast after a short period of fast resets the internal clock.