180: How to Fix Fatigue, Plus What Women Need to Know About Fasting | Amy Shah, MD

I don't believe that you should be having your biggest meal at the end of the day. That's a cultural thing that we've built that's actually not beneficial for our bodies. If you infuse glucose into your bloodstream... you will be able to control your blood glucose levels until about eight o'clock. And then, the same amount of glucose infusion causes blood sugar spikes all throughout the evening ... If you're having a huge load of food late at night, you're basically setting yourself up for metabolic disease.

Ambient light in the room is really a metabolism killer ... People that sleep with ambient light have more trouble losing weight... than people who sleep in a dark blackout room.

You are literally a different person in the morning, in the afternoon, in the evening because 80% of our genes are turning on and off depending on the time of day that you're in.

That gut bacteria is actually always talking to your immune system and always talking to your hormones and always talking to your brain ... So, what we eat can actually fight burnout or fight fatigue, and I think people don't make that connection.