Bryan Johnson· Author
Eat early: finish your last meal at least two hours before bedtime to optimize heart rate and enhance sleep quality, avoiding heavy foods that can disrupt rest.
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Eat early: finish your last meal at least two hours before bedtime to optimize heart rate and enhance sleep quality, avoiding heavy foods that can disrupt rest.
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It will lower your resting heart rate by 15-20% which will improve your sleep quality.
You can start with your last meal of the day 2 hours before bed and then experiment with earlier eating times.
having your final food of the day earlier in the day is one of the best things anyone can do for whole body health.
and when I do that I'm highly likely to have a good night's sleep
level four is to eat early I know this because I tried hundreds of experiments with food types and eating times and I found that I slept the best with blueprint food and my last meal of the day at 11:00 a.m. now that may sound early to you it is but I got used to it now this does not mean that you need to eat at 11:00 a.m. as well what this means is it's an invitation for you to try to explore eating earlier and also trying to avoid big heavy meals at the end of the day that could really be having a negative effect on your sleep
I have my last meal of the day at 11:00 a.m. and so when I when my bedtime comes around 8:30 my resting heart rate is 46 if it's 46 I'm going to have a perfect night sleep
if I finish my last meal of the day at 11:00 a.m. when I go to bed at 8:30 p.m. my resting heart rate is going to be around 46 beats per minute
I eat my last meal of the day at 11:00 a.m So that's like 9 hours before I go to bed
At around 11:00 a.m., I eat my final meal of the day. I choose to eat early in the day because it allows my body to finish digesting my food prior to the time I sleep at 8:30 p.m. This dramatically lowers my resting heart rate, which dramatically improves my sleep.
Eat your final meal of the day at least 4 hours before bed.
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