Rhonda Patrick· PhD
So, during the day, your NAD levels will rise and then you eat a big meal and they'll go down again. And it's... We think it's one of the reasons you also get jet lag, is your NAD cycles are out of whack.
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So, during the day, your NAD levels will rise and then you eat a big meal and they'll go down again. And it's... We think it's one of the reasons you also get jet lag, is your NAD cycles are out of whack.
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So I think that lack of sleep or time zone disruption is um essentially assured to disturb the NAD system.
And um >> you mentioned that that being out of sync with your circadian rhythm. So that could be shift work, it could be traveling to another time zone, right? Jet lag as we call it.