Humans evolved with natural cycles of eating and not eating — meals when food was available, fasting when it wasn’t. Your ancestors didn’t eat upon waking, snack constantly, and graze until bedtime. Modern constant eating is the anomaly.
This companion explores the ancestral pattern, what modern life disrupted (constant food availability), why the rhythm matters metabolically, what honoring the rhythm looks like, and the identity of someone aligned with their natural eating pattern. (4 min read)
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