It is beneficial to align the feeding window such that there is at least one hour after waking and at least two to three hours before bedtime without eating.

“Let's imagine a different pattern of eating where the feeding window starts in the afternoon starts around two or even 3:00 PM. Some people don't have much trouble or they can train themselves to get their feeding window out to two or 3:00 PM, and then they won't eat until 10 or 11:00 PM. Right, if you do the math, you realize that that feeding window is still pretty short. It still constitutes what we would call intermittent fasting or time restricted feeding. But assuming that they go to bed around 11:00 PM or midnight, they are not actually fasted in sleep because for the first six hours or so of sleep, maybe five, but probably more like six hours of sleep, they're still digesting the food that they consumed a late in the night.”

“meaning you don't want your feeding window to be too close to bedtime. And that's why we came up with this kind of foundational pillar, which is at least no eating for the first hour after waking, but also no eating within 2 to 3 hours prior to bed.”