Dooley Noted: 9/7/2013
As a kid, I remember eating some carb-laden cereal and pouring carb-laden cow’s milk over it. I remember going to class and feeling hungry an hour or two later. I always said to myself, “What was the point of eating that cereal if I was just going to be hungry an hour later?”
I suppose those years of cereal-eating were foreshadowing. I still think carbs for breakfast make no sense.
Cortisol is a super-potent stress hormone. Often criticized for weight gain, this chemical actually releases as you sleep and peaks as you wake. It actually helps you BURN fat – if you have good reception of the hormone.
There’s one other thing.
If cortisol is in the presence of insulin, it will NOT make you burn fat.
So, for those trying to burn body fat and prevent disease, you may want to actually skip breakfast. Or, if you do eat breakfast, the last thing you’d want to eat is carbohydrate.
To improve insulin and cortisol reception and efficacy, no breakfast or a fat-protein breakfast are the clear choices. More and more current research is supporting this hypothesis.
I am an n=1, but I can tell you this: I sprint-walk fasted in the mornings for 2-5 miles, and I eat my carbs in the evenings, usually after lifting. And I feel like a machine and am fighting obesity. And, I rarely feel hungry because my hormones are under control.
You might want to truly think about why you are eating carbs in the morning. Biochemically, it doesn’t make much sense. You might have been marketed about its vitality, when research – and any biochemistry textbook – supports otherwise.
– Dr. Kathy Dooley
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21475137