Improves sleep quality
To improve sleep first we must the address the gut. A healthy gut will mean a better ability to produce serotonin that gets converted to melatonin in the gut. Melatonin naturally gets produced throughout the day, reaching higher concentrations at night for sleep.
Actually as much as 75% of the production of melatonin is produced in the gut. So without a healthy gut you won’t produce enough sleep hormone at night.
( to read more about how fasting helps with gut health, see the healthy gut slide)
Furthermore it has been shown that eating in a window of eight hours, and giving yourself at least two hours break from eating before retiring to bed will increase the production Human Growth Hormone at night, which leads to more restorative sleep.
Circadian Rhythm
Our Circadian rhythm is also known as our sleep/wake cycle.
It is our internal clock, a 24-hour timer that is running in the background of our brain and rotates between sleep and awake at regular intervals. Timing your meals to assist your natural circadian rhythm will help your sleep even better. As our bodies wind down to sleep, digestive juices decrease. Melatonin is produced and our appetite decreases. Our bodies are not designed to eat right up to bed. So finishing at least 2 hours before you retire will not only help you maximize HGH production during the night but also prevent any digestive issues.
Professor Satchin Panda
“In order to fall asleep, our body temperature must cool down by almost one degree Fahrenheit. But when we eat, our core body temperature goes up, as blood rushes to the gut to help digest and absorb nutrients. This raises our body temperature and makes it harder to drift off”
