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- I think the first thing is General Mills
did a great job marketing to, like,
three generations of humans.
- Yeah.
- I actually just wrote a email
for the Fit Father Project. You know,
I brought up one of those old retro
Wheaties boxes, where Wheaties used
to have those Breakfast of Champions
was the slogan.
- Yeah, I saw the email, absolutely.
- Gotta make sure we get enough
corn and wheat first thing in the morning,
or we're not gonna function well.
So, yeah, I mean it's just something
that we've kind of been brought up,
and I think that I wanna hit on a couple
of things. One thing you said is brilliant,
is that hunger is a learned pattern.
Like, when we were born, you know,
we didn't -- you know, three square meals
a day is not something that, you know
is necessarily natural. It's just the pattern
that we've kind of ingrained culturally.
And our brains learn that, to expect
food at certain times based on our
Circadian rhythm, and it's a whole new field
of, like, bio-Circadian biology, and all
this stuff. It's like a new frontier.
But also understanding that when
you eat six times a day, your brain
learns how to get hungry six times per day.
So there's a lot of benefit to having
small eating frequency, for overall
greater hunger control. But first thing
in the morning, there are so many unique
hormonal changes that happen inside our bodies,
that are very beneficial to us.
Like cortisol is one of these hormones
that gets a massively bad rap,
but it's the hormone that really
gets us out of bed in the morning.
Cortisol spikes naturally every morning,
and it helps get you out of bed.
And what cortisol also does, is
it mobilizes fat. You know, cortisol
breaks down fat from cells, and
gets us energized. And it helps
convert noradrenaline to adrenaline,
and get us, like, pumping in the morning.
What we don't want is chronically
high cortisol levels from all this stress,
but the important thing of me
bringing cortisol up is that, if
we have a high sugar breakfast
first thing in the morning, not only
do we set our blood sugar on a roller
coaster for the rest of the day,
that's gonna lead to more hunger,
but that completely blocks the natural
rhythm of this gentle rise and fall
of cortisol that helps entrain
our energy patterns. So, you know,
skipping breakfast has a lot of
benefits from a hormonal standpoint.
And I think we've also had a lot of
food marketing, as we started to
do more commercial farming and
agriculture on wheat, and corn,
and soy. These things got really big
industry that we, breakfast cereals
became like, the go-to, and breakfast
carbs became the go-to. Whereas,
if you're gonna have breakfast,
you know, what we recommend here
at the Fit Father Project is a
lower carb, higher healthy fat,
higher protein breakfast to help
keep that blood sugar extremely stable,
let those natural hormones, like,
ride that natural morning wave,
keep those carbs on the lower end.
Carbs are actually better served
in that post-workout period, or
even later at night, you can include
some good carbs for dinner, you
get a good serotonin release, and
your energy is so much more stable.
So we like the higher fat, higher protein,
lower carb breakfast. And there's
a lot of benefits from a neuro-
endocronological standpoint,
as well, where, you know, keeping
the carbs lower has a lot of benefit
on neurotransmitters. You don't
feel as tired from these massive
dumps of serotonin and other chemicals
after you eat carbs.
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