Research
Macro partitioning
Sleep serves to enforce rest and fasting, thereby optimizing metabolic processes (anabolism vs catabolism) at the appropriate phase of the 24-hour cycle.
Align your eating schedule with your active hours. Avoid large meals during your habitual sleep window to allow your body to perform restorative catabolic processes (like gluconeogenesis) without interference from incoming nutrients.
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Sleep appears to have not only a short-term, use-dependent function; it also serves to enforce rest and fasting, thereby supporting the optimization of metabolic processes at the appropriate phase of the 24-h cycle.
Why this rating
Based on a comprehensive review of chronobiology, animal models, and human isolation studies.
Source
The two‐process model of sleep regulation: a reappraisal
Alexander A. Borbély et al. · Journal of Sleep Research · 2016
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