Professor Achim
Peters, leader of the
Selfish Brain Group at
Lubeck, has pioneered
the theory that the
cause of weight gain
and metabolic impairments is chronic cerebral glucose deprivation – or chronic unresolved cerebral hunger.
Professor
Christian
Benedict at Lubeck
has found that nocturnal metabolic stress is
directly related to compromised cerebral energy supply. Professor JJ
Guinovart at Barcelona
has found that restoration of hepatic glycogen reserves reduces
the conditions of modern metabolic impairment and the causative
agencies of metabolic
syndrome -- hyperglycaemia, hyperphagia
and the enzymes of
gluconeogenesis.
Why Honey?
In the Southern
Mediterranean,
for
thousands of years,
the population retired
to bed after a healthy
evening meal, around
10-11pm,
with
a
restocked liver, and
activated quality sleep
and recovery physiology every night in
life. This is the most
neglected aspect of the
Mediterranean
diet;
timing is a key influence in all metabolic events. Since they
have recently abandoned this practice,
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the fastest growing
area for metabolic syndrome is in that region.
They (unconsciously)
practiced the principle
of forward-provisioning
the brain via the liver
prior to sleep. In the
west it is not likely that
the universal culture of
the early evening meal
will be altered any time
soon. Thus we can adopt
the strategy enjoyed
in the Southern Med
by selectively replenishing the liver prior
to sleep.
Honey is
the Gold Standard food