You'll be shocked, but your dinner can be more powerful than a two-hour workout.
In 2022, The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition published a study: 30 g of cashews eaten 2 hours before bed speeds up metabolism by 30% thanks to L-arginine.
"This amino acid stimulates the production of growth hormone, which burns fat while you sleep," neuroscientist Andrew Huberman explained on the Huberman Lab podcast.
L-arginine in cashews activates brown adipose tissue, which uses calories to heat the body.
An experiment involving 200 people showed that the group that ate cashews at night lost 50% more fat than those who ate the nuts in the morning.
Manufacturers of sleeping pills and antidepressants.
"If people started losing weight with nuts, drug sales would go down," a former Pfizer executive said in the documentary Big Pharma Secrets .
Anna, 29, Paris: "I added cashews to my evening smoothie. After 10 days, I lost 4 kg! Now I sleep 8 hours and wake up with a flat stomach."
Choose raw, unsalted cashews.
Do not exceed 30 g - too many nuts will cause heaviness in the stomach.
"Cashews are nature's beauty pill," nutritionist Kelly Levesque told Goop .