If you are over 40 and a bedtime snack stopped your 3am wake-ups, I need you to hear this. It worked. And that is exactly the problem. I am a functional nutritionist who has specialized in women’s metabolic health and hormones for over 20 years. So if someone told you to eat a snack before bed to fix the 3am wake-up, that is the exact thing I would tell you not to do. The snack is not a fix. It is a patch over the real issue. When I said stop eating by 7pm, the question I got most was about that snack. Here is the truth. It works, and that is the trap. You wake at 3am because your blood sugar dips overnight and your body fires cortisol and adrenaline to pull it back up. That surge is what jolts you awake, wired. The snack stops it because it props your glucose up so the dip never comes. You are not sleeping through the night. You are medicating a crash with food. But the dip is the signal. It is telling you your blood sugar is unstable and your body cannot hold steady glucose throu...