nutrient-poor foods and your hormones are all
in a good, healthy balance. For you, nearly
every day is a good day.
Around 6 a.m., cortisol levels (which were
very low throughout the night) rise
dramatically, helping you wake up a half-hour
later feeling like one of those “morning
people.”
Thanks in part to appropriately low leptin
levels, you also wake up hungry. By 7, you’re
sitting down to a simple meal—three eggs
scrambled with onion, peppers, and spinach,
half an avocado, some fresh blueberries, and a
cup of coffee.
There’s not a lot of carbohydrate in this
meal, so your blood sugar rises modestly.
Your pancreas secretes a proportional amount
of insulin in response to the rise in blood
sugar, which sends a gentle message to your
liver and muscles to take up the circulating