Jess Cording

But, you know, we're looking at things like blood pressure, blood sugar, which is more specific to when we're talking about the diabetes risk, for example, but it's all connected.

And then the brain health piece of the picture, like if our blood vessels to our heart are not in great shape due to lifestyle habits, that's going to negatively impact our brain function.

So it's all connected.

So that's why if you hear like cardio metabolic, it's not just about the heart.

It's about our whole body system.

I'm glad you phrased it that way because so often I'm asked, what time should you stop eating?

And that is so variable because what if somebody works the night shift, right?

And their bedtime is a totally different time of day.

Or what if someone's going to bed really early or they don't get home until late?

What I tend to recommend based on the literature is aiming for two to three hours of when you finish dinner to when you go to sleep.

Yeah.

So what can happen is if your blood sugar drops overnight, that could be very disruptive to sleep.

That's when you may find that you're waking up in the middle of the night, like really disoriented or hungry and needing a snack again.

But sometimes that's precipitated by a steep increase in blood sugar and then it drops pretty quickly.

So you're going to see that more often if you are

Eating, say, like really high sugar, high carbohydrate foods, maybe without enough protein, fat and or fiber to slow down that digestive process.

So that is something to be aware of.

That's why having a balanced meal before before bed is definitely recommended as opposed to like a giant bowl of pasta.

So what you may find is maybe for the term carb coma.

So what initially happens is that there is an initial increase or your body in order to digest that carbohydrate in a healthy working pancreas, it will release insulin to make to help process that.