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featured. So let's jump in to this week's question. Hi, I just had a question about diet and

nutrition, because there's a couple of pieces of advice that confuse me how to fit together. I know

there's evidence that if we eat within say an eight hour window,

that can be really helpful for your gut health. But I've also seen your recent posts around,

particularly for women, the importance of eating before a workout to help with energy levels

and strength and things like that as well. And I guess it's kind of how to manage

these two together. If you get out quite early and eat something and then work out in the morning,

so if you were to then eat within a set window, you'd have to end that quite early as well.

So I was just looking for advice on that one. Thank you.

Okay, so this question is related to the advice to

eat within an eight hour window and how that's conflicting with eating before morning workouts.

Now, I am an advocate of making sure you're going into every workout fueled.

And what I mean by that is I'm not really for fasted workouts, especially for women, because

it can disrupt your hormones.

So my advice is, regardless of what time of the morning it is, try to go into your workouts

with at least a snack on board

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