The Claim

In healthy young women, consuming dinner one hour before bedtime for four days does not significantly impair overall glucose tolerance as measured by oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT), despite transient changes in postprandial glucose dynamics.

Source: Effects of later dinner timing on subsequent metabolic function and nocturnal sleep in healthy young women

What the research says

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In plain English

In healthy young women, eating dinner one hour before bedtime for four days does not reduce overall glucose tolerance during an oral glucose tolerance test, although blood sugar levels after eating show short-term fluctuations.

See the scientific wording

In healthy young women, eating dinner 1 hour before bedtime does not significantly impair overall glucose tolerance as measured by oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) after four days of intervention, despite transient changes in postprandial glucose dynamics.

Why this might work

Eating dinner right before bed causes blood sugar to stay high during the night, then drop quickly, which activates the nervous system and fragments sleep, but the liver and pancreas still respond to sugar normally the next day, so overall sugar processing stays unchanged.

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What the research says

1 study
  1. Study: Effects of later dinner timing on subsequent metabolic function and nocturnal sleep in healthy young women

    Even after eating dinner just one hour before bed for four days, these women’s bodies still handled a big sugar load just as well as before—so their ability to process sugar didn’t get worse.

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