Evening Dietary Composition for Sleep Quality via Glycemic Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
There is a lack of understanding on the role of evening meal composition in improving sleep quality and subsequent behavioral outcomes, with no clear evidence on how dietary carbohydrates affect subjective and objective cognitive performance and mood.
Innovation Solution
A method involving a device with one or more processors that evaluates an individual's input parameters such as sleep quality, gender, age, and glycemic status to generate a nutritional recommendation. This recommendation includes a dietary plan with specific macronutrient composition, such as a low glycemic index and fiber-rich evening diet, to promote better sleep quality.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Use of energy by moving object
If a high carbohydrate evening meal is consumed, then energy availability is improved, but glycemic response increases and sleep quality deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the macronutrient composition parameters of the evening meal, specifically reducing carbohydrate content and increasing protein content. This parameter change modifies the glycemic response curve while maintaining adequate energy availability through protein and fat oxidation during sleep.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a composite dietary approach by combining specific ratios of protein, fat, and reduced carbohydrate in the evening meal. This composite macronutrient profile works synergistically to provide sustained energy release while minimizing glycemic excursions that would otherwise impair sleep quality.
2Use of energy by moving object
If carbohydrate intake is increased to improve energy metabolism, then substrate oxidation is enhanced, but nocturnal glycemia becomes unstable and sleep quality decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by adjusting the macronutrient composition of the evening meal before sleep occurs. By pre-establishing a low-carbohydrate, high-protein dietary pattern, the body is primed to utilize alternative fuel sources during sleep, preventing glycemic instability without requiring intervention during the sleep period itself.
3Reliability
If evening meal composition is optimized for sleep quality, then sleep duration and quality improve, but understanding of mechanisms remains insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent incorporates feedback mechanisms through continuous glucose monitoring and sleep tracking technologies. This allows real-time or near-real-time assessment of how dietary interventions affect both glycemic control and sleep parameters, generating data that progressively fills the knowledge gap regarding underlying mechanisms while simultaneously optimizing sleep outcomes.
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AI summary
An aspect is a method of improving sleep quality and/or subsequent behavioural outcomes. The method includes providing a dietary recommendation by evaluating a parameter of the individual selected from the group consisting of sleep time, gender, age, BMI, PA, glycemic status, food preference, food sensitivity, caloric intake, nutrients, meal glycemic load, time of consumption and combinations thereof, providing a nutritional composition based on the dietary recommendation, and administering the nutritional composition to the individual. The nutritional composition is selected from the group consisting of a first composition comprising alpha-casozepine, a second composition comprising tryptophan, a third composition comprising mulberry leaf extract, and combinations thereof. Another aspect is a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a program that causes a device to provide a dietary recommendation and order a nutritional composition based on the dietary recommendation. Yet another aspect is a device comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium disclosed herein.