3146: Can Meal Timing Improve Your Sleep by Riley Pearce of FreeFormFitness on How to Improve Metabolic Health

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🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3146: Riley Pearce explores how meal timing might influence your circadian rhythm, potentially improving your sleep and overall metabolic health. While new research suggests light exposure has a stronger effect than food timing on sleep hormones, small changes, like reducing food after dark and extending morning fasts, can still support better rest and energy regulation. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://freeformfitness.ca/can-meal-timing-improve-your-sleep/ Quotes to ponder: "Meal timing may not have the effect on our sleep cycles that we originally thought." "Reduce food intake after sunset: if you eat this will signal all of those other periphery clocks to let your master clock know it is not time for bed yet." "The circadian rhythm is a natural cycle that is controlled by our biological clocks." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Health Daily. Can meal timing improve your sleep by Riley Pierce of
0:06.7	Freeform Fitness.ca. And I'm your host and narrator, Dr. Neal. Hey there, happy middle of the week
0:12.5	Wednesday and welcome back to Optimal Health Daily, where I read some of the best health and
0:17.0	fitness blogs to you, always with a little bit of my commentary at the end.
0:25.4	Now it is the middle of the week, and like I do every Wednesday, I want to give you a little bit of inspiration. So here we go. Quote, when I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad.
0:34.4	That is my religion. Abraham Lincoln. All right, and with that, let's get right to it and start
0:41.2	optimizing your life. Can meal timing improve your sleep by Riley Pierce of freeformfitness.ca.
0:58.8	Every year, daylight saving time causes a week of agony for many of us.
1:05.6	We feel less rested, more irritable, and very blah, for lack of better words. Some people suggest preparing for the time change weeks in advance, while others propose adapting other areas of your
1:10.6	life to help you adjust.
1:12.7	One of the more common suggestions is using your meal times to try and hack into the circadian
1:18.6	rhythm and reset the clocks a little faster. In this article, we will explain what the circadian
1:24.3	rhythm is and its major influences. then we will look at whether or not
1:28.4	meal timing has a real effect on it. Keep listening to answer the question. Can meal timing
1:34.3	improve your sleep? Overview of the circadian rhythm. Our bodies operate on cycles. We have
1:42.6	positive and negative feedback loops occurring throughout the day.
1:46.5	Our cells recycle themselves on a regular basis, and our hormones fluctuate in a cyclical manner
1:52.2	on a 24-hour cycle, and additionally on a monthly cycle for those assigned to female gender at
1:58.0	birth. The circadian rhythm is a natural cycle that is controlled by
2:02.1	our biological clocks. Yes, we actually have these. We have a master clock in our brains,
2:08.1	known as the suprakiasmatic nuclei, which is controlled by light signals, the sun mainly.
2:14.7	We also have peripheral clocks. These are things like neural pathways, hormone rhythms,
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