Eating before bed: harmful or helpful? Dr. Mike Ormsbee breaks down protein before bed, casein vs. whey, fat metabolism, sleep, and resistance training for postmenopausal women.
Late-night eating comes with many rules of thumb, and most people follow them without knowing what the research shows. Dr. Mike Ormsbee, a researcher at Florida State University, has spent years measuring how protein before bed affects metabolic rate, overnight fat burning, sleep, and recovery. If you lift, want to keep muscle as you age, or have been told to stop eating after dinner, his view on casein vs. whey and bedtime snacks may change what you keep in the kitchen.
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Chapters:
0:00 – The Eating-Before-Bed Debate and How Pre-Sleep Feeding Is Defined
5:00 – Metabolic Rate, Belly-Fat Probes and Casein vs. Whey
9:14 – Exercise as Our "Metabolic Apology" for Poor Diet and Poor Sleep
15:07 – Resistance Training and Fat Metabolism
21:58 – Inside the Five-Year NIH Study: Lifting vs. Cardio After Menopause
31:59 – Growth Hormone, Fed vs. Fasted Training and Why Obesity Slows the Response
36:29 – Protecting Muscle During Rapid Weight Loss and How Much Lifting Is Enough
43:09 – What the Postmenopausal Study Is Showing So Far
50:00 – Sleep, Evening Exercise and the Hungry-at-Night Protein Snack
55:47 – Does Excess Protein Turn to Fat? Older Adults, Calories and Timing
1:02:25 – Collagen, Creatine and Ketones: What He Takes and Skips
1:11:15 – Casein vs. Whey, Future Research and His Best Advice for Postmenopausal Women
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