Why Eating Late Isn't So Great | Dr. Will Bulsiewicz Live Q&A
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 10 June 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
The science of midnight snacking and what happens when you go to bed with a full belly!
Dr. Will Bulsiewicz joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll to explain why even though you may love to eat late, the midnight munchies probably won't love you back. He will teach you about the problems it can cause from sleep to digestion to packing on pounds.
Chuck also opens The Doctor's Mailbag for Dr. B to answer questions sent in by viewers.
- Could the same snack cause you to gain weight if you eat it later at night instead of earlier in the day?
- Is it better to eat three times a day, frequent small meals, or have extended fasts?
- Why are doctors recommending colon cancer screenings for people five years younger than before?
- And many more!
Plus, Chuck reports on a new study of nearly 8,000 people that shows eating fruit may help prevent you from developing diabetes.
If you have a question you'd like to ask the experts on the show, tweet it to @ChuckCarrollWLC using #ExamRoomLive.
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| 0:00.0 | Play-vite snacking chuck is a bit of a problem. |
| 0:02.7 | When we finish eating, we may rest, we may go to bed, but our body doesn't necessarily |
| 0:08.5 | get to rest. |
| 0:09.5 | Our gut microbes don't get to rest. |
| 0:11.6 | In fact, that's when they grab their lunchpale, put on their hard hat, and they go to work. |
| 0:16.7 | If you eat at 10pm, then around 2am, you are elevating your triglyceride level, and |
| 0:24.2 | there is inflammation that is occurring around that, and that inflammation will persist |
| 0:29.2 | from 2am until the following morning. |
| 0:32.8 | And then you wake up and you eat, and your body never gets a break. |
| 0:41.1 | Welcome to the Exam Room Podcast, brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:45.2 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:48.3 | Thank you so very much for raising your health IQ with us. |
| 0:53.1 | This is episode 47 of season 4, number 242, overall. |
| 1:00.0 | You know, that late night meal may sound like a good idea. |
| 1:04.3 | It may taste good, but it probably won't do your body any good. |
| 1:12.0 | And why is that? |
| 1:13.2 | Well, Dr. Will Bolsovitz is here with that answer for us today. |
| 1:18.1 | He is a renowned gastroenterologist and the author of the best-selling book, Fiber Fueled. |
| 1:24.2 | He's here for his monthly check-in on the exam room live, and when we asked this question |
| 1:29.2 | about late night eating that one of the exam roomies had sent in to the doctor's mailbag, |
| 1:34.5 | it really sparked a conversation that went a lot deeper into science than I was expecting. |
| 1:41.2 | And I guess that's the good part about having a gut health expert on the show. |
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