Study Links Late-Night Eating and Stress to Poorer Gut Health

Eating at night may throw your gut health into chaos

Eating late at night may compound the harmful impacts of stress on your digestive health and gut microbiome, according to recent research.

The late-night eating habit that may throw your gut health into chaos

By Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — If stress causes your digestive woes, eating late at night isn’t doing you any favors. For thousands of participants in new, early research, those eating more than 25% of one’s daily calories after 9 p.m. while stressed were as much as 2.5 times more likely to have abnormal bowel

A Good Reason to Stop Eating Late at Night

If you’re stressed and eating more than a quarter of your calories late at night, you could be harming your gut bacteria. A new observational study looked at more than 15-thousand who eat after 9 p.m. and found they are up to two-and-a-half times more likely to suffer gastrointestinal issues…if they are also under physiological stress – like high blood pressure, cholesterol or obesity. Late night eating on its own didn’t affect gut health – indi…