Jess Cording

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 bed is definitely recommended as opposed to like a giant bowl of pasta.

So what you may find is, maybe you've heard 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 help process that starch that's beginning to enter the bloodstream as carbohydrate.

Because what happens when we eat any kind of starch, pasta is an example, as we digest that food,

The molecules, the starch molecules break down to smaller and smaller pieces and then enter our bloodstream as, you know, like glucose, fructose, for example.

And then they go to all the cells that need it to do their jobs.

And we need some.

That's important.

But what happens initially as our body is trying to help with that process of getting the