Can Intermittent Fasting Transform Your Sleep?
This summertime, I found later sunsets meant later meals — and that meant a later bedtime. Visiting my family also meant dining out late into the evening, which not only caused major social jetlag but also difficulty falling asleep after finishing dinner around 10pm.
I felt uncomfortable and stuffy while trying to fall sleep, and I experienced frequent awakenings when I eventually did.
Determined to improve my sleep, I decided to finish dinner at 5pm for a month by following the 16:8 method of intermittent fasting (eating within an eight hour window and fasting for 16 hours). And it worked. But what is intermittent fasting, and why did it improve my sleep? I called on Lena Bakovic, MS, RDN, CNSC, a registered dietician at Live It Up, to find out…
Excerpted from Tom’s Guide
