When we eat may be more important to our health than what we eat. Going to bed on a full stomach can prevent us from entering deep sleep and nicely cycling through the different stages of sleep, where we repair our body and take out cellular garbage.
In studies that looked at the effect of meal timing on metabolism, shortening the feeding window (from when you start eating to when you stop for the day) had large impacts on weight, blood sugar balance and lipid profiles, even when subjects were fed the exact same thing.
