Paul Saladino· MD
I've heard of discussed though I haven't gone deeply down the rabbit hole that perhaps eating late could inhibit the formation of melatonin or the release of melatonin because I believe there's evidence that insulin and melatonin are antagonistic and so that if you eat late at night you're kind of changing your body's clock right this is I've talked about this a little bit in the past on previous podcast this time restricted eating and where the window is best let's dig into that a little bit but I think that the research suggests that if you eat late at night and there's an insulin spike even no matter what you're eating there's gonna be more insulin even if you're eating a carnivore diet or a ketogenic diet there is a post prandial bump in insulin not as much as with a carbohydrate meal but I think that that may affect negatively affect the release of melatonin from the brain