Aligning with the local food schedule can also help your body adjust to a new time zone.
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Aligning with the local food schedule can also help your body adjust to a new time zone.
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But what you don't want to do is stay on your home meal schedule, waking up in the middle of the night and eating. That is really going to throw things off because a lot of the clocks in the periphery like from the liver, the peripheral body, will send information back to the brain and then the brain is getting really conflicted signals.
And eating on the local schedule as well.
I was told that one of the ways to help shift the clock and to avoid gastrointestinal issues is to eat on the local schedule. - Mm hm. - To start basically behaving like a local. - Mm hm. - Even though your circadian clock will take a little bit of time to catch up. - Right, absolutely.
In fact, for those of you that engage in shift work because you have to, or travel and you're jet lagged, one of the quickest ways to shift your circadian clock and get onto the local schedule is to eat on the local schedule.
you want to eat on the local meal schedule.
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