What’s the best time to stop eating before bed time?

Stop eating at least two hours before bed, and ideally three. Leaving this buffer helps you enter sleep without ongoing digestion and supports the sleep-related fast and cellular repair processes. 1 2

• Fasted state: Eating too close to sleep disrupts the sleep-related fast; fasting during sleep is associated with cellular repair processes. 3
• Consistent eating window: When practical, keep your daily eating window at roughly the same time and leave that pre-bed gap; a window that shifts by hours may offset some benefits. 4