This is a YouTube video titled "Skip This Health Sabotaging Habit" containing a conversation recorded on March 21, 2020, featuring multiple speakers including Ask AI Mark. The discussion focuses on the effects of late-night eating on metabolism, weight gain, and hormonal impacts related to energy expenditure and hunger.
I agree.
I always said you shouldn't eat three hours before bed because your body's getting ready to repair and heal. If it's digesting, it doesn't do such a good job. And if you want to gain weight, the best way to gain weight is night eating. That's the best way.
And it's not because, here's the thing. Sometimes I have these confrontations with people in the fitness world who say, well, a bagel isn't magically going to be 200 calories at 8:01 p.m. if it's only 100 calories at 8:00 p.m. And that's true. The calorie content of food doesn't change from one time to the next, but it might actually, the disruption of your body's circadian rhythm might negatively affect hormones involved in energy metabolism, in hunger. So eating late at night could actually make you more hungry the following day.
My favorite study I read when I wrote my book, Ultra Metabolism, like 15 years ago or more, was they fed people the same calories in three meals over the day or they fed them like one meal at night and the ones who had the one meal at night with the same amount of calories gained weight.
Wow.
Compared to the other group, even though they eat exactly the same amount of calories.
Yeah. So, because it might reduce leptin, which is the metabolic throttle essentially that dictates arresting energy expenditure. It might actually increase levels of ghrelin, which is a hormone involved in hunger. So these are all the indirect ways in which late night eating can actually make you gain weight.
