Did you know that eating late meals affects not only your sleep but your heart rate, too?! This was quite hard for me to wrap my head around.
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@TerraAPI Research, we analysed thousands of nights of wearable data to explore whether late eating meaningfully impacts sleep. Not in a lab, not in a controlled setting, but in the messy reality of everyday life.
There is a relationship between late eating and sleep. Eating closer to bedtime is associated with slightly worse recovery, as evidenced by higher heart rate, later sleep onset, more awake time and small changes in sleep structure (although sleep structure measured with wearables should be taken with a pinch of salt), but the magnitude is modest.
If you’re interested, link to the full research is in the comments below