that the optimally functioning iPump is the
engine of quality sleep
and recovery physiology, and therefore of
nocturnal fat metabolism.
Reduced consumption
of refined sugars and
carbohydrates, combined with honey taken
prior to sleep every
night, after an early
evening meal, may
constitute the single
most significant and
cost effective contribution to public health
and learning in several
generations.
(c). Mike McInnes
Mike McInnes is a retired Scottish pharmacist with a special interest in cerebral
energy metabolism and its modern impairments.
Mike, who lives in Edinburgh, has written The Honey Diet – a popular book on weight
control that introduces the public to the glial cell and to chronic cerebral glucose
deprivation as the driving force of obesity, via suppression of the cerebral glucose
pump (iPump), and to sleep deprivation as a cofactor in weight gain.
The Honey Diet is published by Hodder and Stoughton, Imprint of Hachette. January
2nd 2014.
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