3533: Should You Eat Before Bed? Cortisol, Serotonin, or Fasting? (WW)

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Dr. Stephen Cabral

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🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

For most people, the advice is simple: stop eating after dinner to improve digestion, support deeper sleep, and boost long-term health.

But as with all things in life, there are exceptions and in some cases, a small nighttime snack can actually be beneficial.

On today’s show we’ll break down both sides of the debate and cut through the confusion to decide whether eating before bed supports or sabotages your goals.

Join me on Cabral Concept 3533 as we explore whether you should (or shouldn’t) eat before bed and how to personalize the answer for your own health journey.

Enjoy the show, and let me know what works best for you!

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1:11.7	Okay, everybody, great to have you here today on the show. We're going to be talking about
1:15.3	whether you should eat before bed or not. And by that, I mean, should you have a small
1:20.8	little snack 30 minutes before bed? And before you jump in with what your belief is already, let's keep an open mind and explore.
1:31.0	It's one of the biggest things I try to share with my colleagues is that don't already jump
1:36.6	to share what you already know, but instead be open to why there might be a countering viewpoint.
1:48.7	So instead, we dismiss dogma and we don't say this is the rule, but instead we ask, what's the goal? And that's what I want to go through
1:53.9	here on today's show. The first I want to go with is that many people do stop eating after dinner.
2:00.4	And I do make that recommendation for myself and the vast majority of people.
2:06.8	But there are times when that rule can be broken.
2:10.1	Now, why do we typically say no food or snacks after dinner?
2:14.7	Because what we want to do is get the body moving towards the rest and relax,
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