Christmas party season is upon us, and with it comes late nights centered around booze, cocktails and canapés... and perhaps a drunken rendition of Fairytale In New York. Dashing straight from the office to the pub or party often means that a proper meal gets overlooked-sometimes for days on end-instead fuelling our festivities with 'picky bits'. The result? The all-too-well-known party season cycle of overindulging, feeling sluggish, riddled with guilt, not getting enough sleep and then waking up to start all over again.
It started with a donut. One morning in her 20s, Jessie Inchauspé says, she grabbed her usual sugary breakfast on her way to work in Silicon Valley - and noticed something strange. Her new fitness tracker showed her blood sugar spiking, then crashing. The pattern mirrored her bouts of brain fog, anxiety, and exhaustion, she said. "It might seem obvious today that what we eat impacts our mental health, but back then, for me, I hadn't connected the dots," Inchauspé told Business Insider.