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The irony with everyone watching this on their phone in bed late at night

Who hates the biochemistry info?!? It helps us understand the “cause and effect” of our physiology. Thank you for educating us and please keep them coming.

Watching at 2:23 AM. How'd you know I needed this?

I love when you"geek" out and explain the science behind everything and how and why the body does what it does..and at what time and for what reasons.. once you learn how some things work itt's much easier to apply so interesting please never stop teaching this

Quick Recap * Eat Early * Take time off screens before bed * Better to fast by skipping dinner

@svt283

2 жыл бұрын

It’s 10:35 going in a 48hr fast. I’m up watching this and saying fuck!

Great timing! I’ve been wondering about this

@landdesigner4195

3 жыл бұрын

Me too.

I've been doing the intermittent fasting with breakfast early and then lunch, no dinner obviously, definitely sleep way better than I have my entire life. Highly recommended 👍☀️

@Chaz.hands.

3 жыл бұрын

Do you make your two earlier meals bigger so you are having the same amount of calories you would get but over 2 meals instead of 3?

@LennefalkStudios

3 жыл бұрын

@@Chaz.hands. I'm in a cutting phase, and generally want big meals so tend to have bigger but lower calorie dense meals, like salads. Very limited pasta, bread, rice etc

@Chaz.hands.

3 жыл бұрын

@@LennefalkStudios Ok, good to know. It is amazing how much timing can make a difference though. When you are taught that it's all about calories in/out, but there's so much more to it than that.

@LennefalkStudios

3 жыл бұрын

@@Chaz.hands. yeah, but I think it's also about adopting to the ghrelin response which takes a while, and not giving in to hunger spikes that obviously happen until body gets more used to intermittent fasting

@marym3355

2 жыл бұрын

I can totally relate, I prefer skipping dinner instead of breakfast for a better slip

Excellent video here Thomas, Thank you. One of the best ones yet imo, super fascinating and healthy lifestyle stuff here

Correcting my messed up sleep schedule was one of the first things I noticed when I embarked on my first 36 hour fast this week. The shorter fasts didn’t do anything for me but oh man the 36 hour one has impacted my brain in ways I don’t even understand. For so long, I thought my circadian rhythm was broken. I’d get to sleep between 3 and 5 A.M. and sleep until noon, sometimes later. Since my 36 hour fast it’s like a switch flipped in my brain. Over the past days, I’ve naturally been waking up between 6 and 7 A.M.-fully alert-and getting tired between 9 P.M. and midnight. I am completely FLOORED that a single fast has alleviated my sleep troubles. I didn’t think I’d ever sleep normally again. The impacts of fasting on the body are nothing short of amazing.

@mvl942

2 жыл бұрын

Amazing! I have exactly the same sleeping problem. I was wondering did you already sleep better during the 36 hour fast, or only After breaking the fast? And at what time did you break the fast? Thanks in advance! :)

@rjthomasindyusa

Жыл бұрын

@@mvl942 Did you try fasting to fix your circadian rhythm?

@mvl942

Жыл бұрын

@@rjthomasindyusa Hi, thanks for your reply! I have. I once fasted 5 days but it didn't improve my circadian rhythm (i broke my fast at around 6 pm). Then a while ago, after my rhythm started get a little more normal, I did a fast again and broke it at around 6pm and it completely messed it up again. It makes doesnt make me start to feel awake until 6 pm. So I have a theory that after fasting for a few days, the moment you break your fast is the moment which your body will see as the "correct wake up time" and will calibrate your circadian rhythm according to that time. So I was just curious, did your circadian rhythm improve During the fast, or After you had broken the fast? and did you break your fast in the morning? Or at a different time? Thanks!

@rjthomasindyusa

Жыл бұрын

@@mvl942 I haven't tried it yet. I couldn't fall to sleep until 2:30-4:00 AM for the past year. It turns out that I had low testosterone and sleep apnea. I got on testosterone and I started using a CPAP a few days ago. I defiantly getting good sleep now but I need to figure out this circadian rhythm. Its 2:18 AM right now... lol. I was eating late too. So I stopped eating earlier and I think I am going to set an alarm and wake up at a normal hour and go outside for 20 minutes. My bedroom doesn't let a whole lot of light in... Were you ever able to reset your circadian rhythm?

So useful - thank you! Like others have mentioned, I LOVE the science part of this channel but this video had great, easy, actionable tips that I really appreciated.

This is SO helpful, thank you!

The best video in a long time. Thank you

Thanks for explaining the science in a way that makes sense to me!

Thank you, Thomas.

Thank you for this information.💛

I love learning about sleep!! Definitely not boring to me. Thank you so much for sharing the information. :)

A well produced vlog Tom, cheers.Incidentally I have tried counting sheep to get some shut eye and lo and behold it worked !

Excellent informative valuable, better than a lecture at some Universities. Thank you Thomas, you change people's life for better.

I'm not sure when I first found you but I feel like I know ya T! Haha Thankyou for consistently hitting us with pure gold. Love ya mate please never stop and please never feel low x

Excellent video !!💪💪👋

I like fasting in the evening time as well, I have no problem with my sleep, but if I do eat in the evening, my sleep is disturbed. Love your videos. Thank you

I love the science. Keep it coming. It motivates me more.

Thanks so much!

This is great advice - And Thomas does his best 'Blue Steel' pose on the blueblox site lol 🤣

The video I've been waiting for!!!

@root1657

3 жыл бұрын

Were you up all night waiting? :)

Excellent! I love listening to you! You beat all other People out there!

Thank you so much for explaining the science and addressing the complex factors impacting sleep. I really appreciate you talking about how to sleep at night if you're feeling wired from fasting.

Thomas - don’t worry about getting too heady- we love nerding out on health and fitness with you! I didn’t even know there were 2 circadian rhythms! :)

This looks like what I've been needing.

Thank you.

Good evening Teach. Thomas. Good egg! Man the universe even beyond has to take note of your strength as a Father Husband Coach Teach too! What's that feel like? Craig of GB an indebted learner truly thankful for your generousity right here:) See you tomorrow.

My sleep has been nothing short of horrible for the past 7 years since I started going through menopause. Thank you so much for all of this information. Let's hope it works!

@mvl942

2 жыл бұрын

Did it work? :)

@nizamansari569

Жыл бұрын

Did it work

Thanks bro great content always.. It's help useful and you make it easy to understand... I helped my brother lose 30 kilos during lock down using fasting and I have been able to get leaner and keep it off. Thank you Let me know if you want before and after pics for your channel! God bless Bruce from Cape Town South Africa

Love 💕 the geek facts-

I wake up at 4am. I don’t eat breakfast until 6am. I don’t eat anything past 3pm and I sleep like a rock and I wake up incredibly refreshed.

Useful for me! I’m going to start my morning with my light box on (and try to go outside).

Do people actually hate when you get into the science of the details? If so...that's really a bummer. Sometimes I wish you'd go deeper into the science.

@Chaz.hands.

3 жыл бұрын

Same

I’ve been struggling with my sleep patterns for over 15 years having serious issues. I’ve tried many many many things with little results. I’ve never tried anything with fasting! Am so excited to try this!

@estehfano

3 жыл бұрын

So am I. I'm trying trauma terapies also, like SE, EMDR, Brainspoting and microfisioteraphy

@celenebalvaneda4848

3 жыл бұрын

Check out the videos of Andrew huberman. Fascinating neuroscientist that can explain in simple terms specifics of what to do according to the issue and the function of the specific area of the brain involved in that function

@sawlfo

3 жыл бұрын

Please tell me how it goes!!

@sdoucette5229

3 жыл бұрын

Any success?

@nizamansari569

Жыл бұрын

Have you tried

I found out 2 years ago that I could eat almost the same amount of calories/food and either I could lose or gain weight depending on what time I eat. I used to snack around 11:30 PM when I got home from work and I did this for almost 10 years. With this routine, I slowly gained about 30 lbs in 10 years. Two years ago I decided to stop snacking at night time (but still consuming the same amount of calories/food). I just moved my snack time around 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM. The same food that I snack at night time I moved it in the afternoon. Glad to know that science backs it up!!!

i work nightshift from 5pm to 4am. my sleep is not perfect but i have experienced some improvement when on low carb/keto, fasting from 5pm to 12pm, bluelight blocking glasses on from 12am to bedtime at 04am. eating around 1800 kcal from 12pm to 05pm. magnesium 2 hours before sleep. in average 6 hours of sleep with 7,5 hours of bedtime.

I was prescribed melatonin last year to help with my symptoms of sleep apnea. Only took it for a few nights. It was so overpowering that I still felt the effects of melatonin 4 hours after I woke up and a cup of coffee

I'll try anything right now. Running on empty. Thanks Thomas ✌🏾💚's🤙🏾

@Figurefitout

9 ай бұрын

Did it help?

I needed this so much, my sleep pattern is so messed up!

@vishalsakhare1580

3 жыл бұрын

Try quitting coffee. Helped me massively.

@skwisgaarskwigelf331

3 жыл бұрын

@@vishalsakhare1580 I'm a Spanish student. I can't imagine life without coffee! Besides, I'm careful enough not to take caffeine at least 8 hours before bedtime. I think it's more of a metabolic/hormonal issue

@Chaz.hands.

3 жыл бұрын

@@skwisgaarskwigelf331 Good luck getting into better habits!

@mvl942

2 жыл бұрын

Did it work for you?

Thanks for this Thomas! I recently stopped smoking weed and I’ve been experiencing sleeplessness as a withdrawal symptom. It’s been rough

@RS-pu9ti

3 жыл бұрын

Supplementing with bcomplex should help you

Love the Texas Star,

Just been researching this

@peterpersaud4571

3 жыл бұрын

Lol I feel like I need a globe compass and metro calculator to hear this guy. I think he is just using bullshit odd words that we normal people never heard so he can make a video

The bio chem is part of what makes your channel unique and credible. Don’t insult yourself, keep learning and teaching.

I think this might play into why you feel so much better after just a few days of fasting. Also might play into why hgh etc increase. I think good restful sleep might be a key to almost everything. Good stuff.

It might also just be metabolic, I was over exercising, under eating and not getting enough carbs which resulted in several nutritional deficiencies after 6 years etc (thought I was being healthy, felt great in the initial years) unknowingly I was putting my body in a catabolic state which will cause the body to stay awake and alert, as it is meant to. Think about what you are doing and what messages you are sending to your central nervous system via the way you eat exercise and live...you might be putting your body in survival mode and its simply doing what its meant to be doing. I cut back and changed the way I exercise opting for more anabolic promoting activities with ample recovery time, ate more frequent balanced meals and also allowed myself to take naps. It has taken a long time for my body to balance out and recover, I now don't even need to bother with or think about sleep hygiene, I get tired and sleep. I hope this helps someone in a similar predicament, the worst part is not knowing what is happening and how to recover.

What if fasting (extended in particular) makes me less tired and less sleepy? I don't feel tired at say 11 pm during a fast as I do on a day that I eat and I don't feel tired but I consciously want to sleep at 11.

Sorry but I really like it a lot when you go deep on the biochem piece. :)

can you make a video to somehow help people who work nights? thanks, big fan.

Do you have a video regarding advice for women who suffer from severe sleep apnea and are trying to fast to lose weight while combatting the complications associated with sleep apnea? I’ve been searching and searching for an answer to this. Thank you. 🙏🏼

Definitely going to try this! I have a form of narcolepsy and delayed sleep phase syndrome! Worth a shot!!!

@mvl942

2 жыл бұрын

Did it work? :)

@Figurefitout

9 ай бұрын

​@@mvl942ya I want to know

You are the man. Thanks. Thomas, is true some people have different circadian cycle? The "DSPS" (delayed sleep phase syndrome) is a real/genetic/biological character or it's only a psychological pattern??

Thank you for the video. About melatonin, if you’re supposed to take it an hour or so before your last meal and if you’re fasting so your last and maybe only meal is at 5 or 6 … isn’t taking melatonin fat 4pm a bit too early?

I bought blue and green light blocking glasses! They're amazing and make you see the world like The Terminator! all red!

Would like to know more about how fast timing effects hormones, can this be re-establishing more normal hormone levels? Wondering how it may benefit postmenopausal.

@celenebalvaneda4848

3 жыл бұрын

Check out the videos of Dr Mindy Pelz, she's all about fasting and hormones on women specifically peri, post and menopausal women

@karengriswold4537

3 жыл бұрын

@@celenebalvaneda4848 I'm going to check her out. My sleep has been off for the past 7 years. It's awful!

@ThomasDeLauerOfficial

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the suggestion

Magnesium Glycinate and 5-HTP helps my sleep immensely

Very good information, I needed this so much, especially because my sleep is whacked up!

@mvl942

2 жыл бұрын

Did you try it? Did it work? :)

It gets dark at 5pm in the winter. Last meal has to be at 4?

I love the biochemistry lol

Dang, I literally just bought some blueblox like 4 days ago. Shoulda waited for that discount

So how do you balance fasting at night with refuelling after an evening workout? When your doing something from 6-8pm, and dinner is not till after exercise cause you can't eat beforehand as that will upset your stomach during the workout. And you need to refuel for recovery.

Hi, Thomas! Here's a suggestion: please do a video on the deleterious effects of having too low estrogen/estradiol for men. It can't be too high, but if it's too low this is the end result (note: excerpt from an article): ****** Testosterone is powerful--in the male human body and in the American pharmacological marketplace. From 1993 to 2000, prescriptions for testosterone replacements increased fivefold, boosted by advertising campaigns that invited aging men to “talk to their doctor about low T” if they were experiencing decreased energy, sex drive or muscle tone. Until now, however, physicians haven’t really known just how low testosterone levels might produce these symptoms, and just how low testosterone would need to drop to cause changes in a man’s energy level, his body composition or his sexual function. In fact, while men were lining up in droves to get tested for “low T,” physicians and researchers really weren’t sure whether the problem was testosterone at all. In a curious twist, it turns out that some of men’s “low T” symptoms are, in fact, attributable to a deficiency of “the female hormone,” estrogen. That’s right. Low E, not low T, may be responsible for the decline in many men’s sexual function and their accumulation of body fat. The study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Thursday. The new research explored what mix of hormone levels in healthy younger men might bring on the hallmark symptoms of male hypogonadism: loss of energy and strength, sexual dysfunction and depressed libido and changes in body composition that add flab and sap muscle tone. Because a portion of a male’s testosterone is converted to the hormone estradiol--a form of estrogen--researchers knew there was more to the hormonal mix than just testosterone. So they recruited more than 300 healthy men between 20 and 50 and tinkered with their hormonal balance to see what the effects would be. All the men had their testosterone hormone production suppressed by four monthly injections of the drug goserelin (marketed as Zoladex) and either a placebo testosterone replacement or actual testosterone replacement that ranged across four levels, from very little replacement to complete replacement. These men were further divided into two groups: half getting a medication that blocks the conversion of testosterone to estradiol, the other half not. The results help tease apart which of men’s mid- or late-life symptoms may stem from testosterone loss and which from a failure to convert enough of that testosterone to estradiol. The results also flesh out the levels of testosterone loss that are typically necessary to induce symptoms such as low sex drive, body composition changes and flagging energy. The accumulation of body fat was seen in most of the men whose testosterone was less than fully replaced, but such increases were particularly widespread in those whose estrogen levels were low. Sexual function suffered among the men whose testosterone was was less than fully replaced as well. But again, the effect was much more pronounced in men whose estrogen levels were also low. Reduced testosterone levels alone were enough to degrade a man’s lean body mass, the size of his thigh muscle or his leg strength. Those weren’t further degraded when a man’s ability to convert testosterone to estrogen was blocked, suggesting that these problems are largely caused by low testosterone alone. The result may be the first step to a more precise diagnosis of those “non-specific symptoms” that men complain to their doctors about, and which lead to them with ever greater frequency taking home a prescription for hormone replacement. It may also be a reminder to men that testosterone alone is not the source of their vitality: estrogen too, plays a role. **********

is there blue light glasses that are legitmately working for less than $30??? those glasses are 6 x out of my range

Is it possible to buy prescription clear lenses that block blue light ? do you get some kind of funny coloured imaged ?

I try to sleep everyday for a long time but when life gets in the way it’s hard btw I work night shift and I lost 63 lbs and I don’t sleep at night at all. I sleep at 9am to 5pm :) than I’m awake to 5pm till 9am. I work nightshift as a nurse. But I don’t eat at night! That’s the true secret! I eat my meal at 5pm and 9pm and fast all night all day till next day at 5pm

Ive been fasting by eating between 1pm and 8pm, but after 2 months i began to troblue with insomnia, should i modify my window to eat between 8am and 12pm?

Okay - quick disclosure. I'm about to watch the video but I can relate to the title so much. This is what I've noticed too when I fast for over 24 hours. After a full day of fasting, I'd have to deliberately fight drowsiness to stay up late, and would wake up the next morning instead of sleeping in regardless of whether or not I stayed up late.

@dvd791

3 жыл бұрын

No way! you woke up?

Great info! Will get back to you over 5 days and let you know if I noticed anything. Maybe this will do the trick!

@mvl942

2 жыл бұрын

Did it work? :)

I'd like to try switching my feeding window but I train in the AM n dont feel true hunger until lunch time. I fear I will get hungry in pm n mess up my usual calorie intake. Any1 have any experience of switching ? I did OMAD for years now do 18:6 (lunch/early dinner) I'm sleeping fine as is

Ive had a bad sleep schedule for the past 14 years, but dont really care to change it. My body is weird and gets sleepy when the sun comes up. I have a hard time sleeping when its night. So I usually get up at like 12 or 1 eat my 1 meal at 7 or 8 ish and go to bed at 6am. Just a night owl. Heck when I worked in a bakery I went to bed after work so I used to sleep at noon. Those science things though are on point with what the mayo clinic taught me. They did say though as long as you go to bed and wake up at the same time every day your body will produce the melatonin at that time dark or not

Yoi can look directly at the sun at any time of day, its safe and I do it all the time, it only improved my eyesight. Also make your own blue blockers that are super cheap and better than any you'll find, because safety goggles fit tightly on your face and don't allow light to enter from the sides, just stretch adhesive tinted foil (red or orange or yellow or a couple of them) find some on eBay that are made for windows.

Melatonin is Bad Bad Bad. Maybe once if absolutely needed but that's it. It made me dependent on it and screwed me up bad and it also makes me eyes twitch. Annoying as ever. Great video!

Thats crazy! I already found out that my body will function better fasting after noon to next day, instead of eating from noon to 7 or 8!

Thomas: "don't eat when it's dark outside" Me: living in the nordics where we have like six hours of daylight per day during the winter, let alone the areas where the sun doesn't go down for days

guys i have a question. I've been doing keto OMAD for 7 months now. but on my third month, i can't eat more than 1200 calories per day or else im gonna puke and throw up almost all of the food im consumed. and because of that, i just consumed less than 1200 calories per day and risk lowering my BMR. can someone explain as to why its happening to me?

Links to buy red lights?

Laughing as a Canadian in Edmonton... where in winter it gets light at 10:30am, and gets dark at 4pm!! I don't know how to get all my meals in that window! Haha!

I have some medical problems that cause a lot of insomnia and I take melatonin every day for months while I'm having trouble, once the symptons are gone I stop taking melatonin. First day without melatonin I sleep like a baby, taking melatonin longterm has no adverse affect on me.

my circadian rhythm has been messed up since the chemo (2013!) it causes insomnia so they gave us all Ambien- that night we all fell out of bed! the next night thy gave us Temazepam (generic for Restoril) and after 10 pills I was addicted-ended up in the ER with E. Coli-they said stop Temazepam immediately-you're not waking up tp pee and the longer the urine stays on the bladder the bacteria over grows (?) so I had to quit-NOT that they were helping me sleep (drugged sleep is not quality sleep) Then onto Melatonin-didn't always work, 5HTP-slept 2 hours, crazy dream with both, couldn't turn my thoughts off -so onto Theanine which works sometimes-did everything I knew to do-then found out what I didn't know to do-so will try this (except I'm never hungry in the morning :(

@mvl942

2 жыл бұрын

Did it work? :)

Video request: how to ween off nightly melatonin and be able to sleep... or is it just 4 days of morning only eating and it will be done??

What’s your opinion on apple cider vinegar pills? Found some on Amazon with mother and I don’t see what the difference would be?

@Newt0386

3 жыл бұрын

My best guess would be ingredients. Check out the ingredients and see if there’s anything added. Also organic ACV is better

@RS-pu9ti

3 жыл бұрын

Drinking ACV would be highly recommended instead of the pill

Usually I don't sleep at all for two days, and get 4-5 hours on the third day. It is SO bad. I gotta try this!

@nizamansari569

Жыл бұрын

Any sucess

is every video you do connected to a sponsorship ?

@short-stayaccommodationnew9909

3 жыл бұрын

well he doesnt go to work for free..do you?

I discovered only recently (after a year on Keto & IF) that I sleep better when I eat later, 6pm. I’m insulin resistant and have high cortisol, chronic insomnia. Eating late has helped a little.

So the ppl who fasted from 8am-2pm...after 4 days, do they go back to eating regularly??

I am sensitive to light and nose.. Even the clock is ticking, wakes me up

cant sleep when hungry have to eat 1 hour before bed , 50g oats 24g whey, im 80kg 10% 6', like 5-7mm belly fat

I can easily fast till 4PM, evening is when I am hungry. I stop eating around 9 -10 p.m. I work 3.pm-11p.m.shift.

The start of the video reminded me of Half Life 2 intro on the train

Thomas, before you demonized MELATONIN I highly suggest you read the research by Russel J Reiter Ph.D who is the pre-eminent MELATONIN researcher of our times. Exogenous Melatonin does not create a feedback loop. Furthermore, MELATONIN production decreases with age so exogenous supplementation is highly recommended for older people.

@elyl78

3 жыл бұрын

What age group are you referring to with the melatonin reduction?

@rickchang8485

3 жыл бұрын

According to research, it gradually starts to decline in your 30's and by your 70's you are producing less than 50%. MELATONIN is mostly known for its influence on sleep/circadian rhythm and less known for its superior antioxidant properties, much greater than vitamin C plus you can't overdose on it. Search youtube for Russel J Reiter and MELATONIN o better yet, buy his book.

Hmmmm. But why do we not sleep when fasting longer??🤔. I've tried so much with no success.... Earthing is up next. I'll try this. Thank you.

Chronic insomnia for 15 years

@nizamansari569

Жыл бұрын

Are you diabetic

The only problem with not eating at dark is that changes with seasons....

To restore my sleep patterns I still needs to wait some more years, till kids will grow-up :P Nevertheless keto & IF rocks!!

Not eating anymore after 6 PM is the true pill for many health benefits I assure. When I was wounded I stopped eating6-8 hours prior to bed and its done wonders to heal them. Also made me lose some more weight as a side effect

Just quit caffeine. It's rough at first and you might think you can't live without coffee but you'll be shocked how much you need coffee because you DRINK coffee in the first place. I quit caffeine when I started keto and I sleep better, fall asleep almost instantly and I wake up way easier because I get better quality sleep. My migraines are also significantly less common and less severe.