If you really want to eat some sugar, let's say a cookie or donut or whatever. The best time to eat that sugar so that you have maximum dopamine from it, maximum pleasure and less impact on your body, is going to be after a meal as dessert. You want to always avoid eating sugar on an empty stomach. And always avoid eating sugar in the morning, okay?
Really?
Yes. So breakfast should be savory, okay? In the morning, nothing sweet.
Really? Yeah. Man, those pastries though, with the chocolate inside, and just, oh man, the donut in the morning.
I know.
Keep them for dessert after lunch. Because if you have them in the morning, then what's happening in your body? As you digest that sugar and those carbs, they turn into glucose molecules. And these arrive into your bloodstream really quickly and cause what's called a glucose spike. So a blood sugar spike. And then about 90 minutes later, Lewis, your glucose levels are going to drop. You're going to feel a crash. And now it's 10 a.m., 11 a.m., and all of a sudden, you feel more cravings for sweet food. You're like, "I need a cookie. I need some chocolate. I need a snack."
Need that spike again.
And then you spike again. And then all day you're on a rollercoaster where you feel addicted to sugar.