Does Eating Chocolate Disrupt Your Sleep?
Chocolate affects the brain and body in ways most people don’t realise. If you care about recovery, energy and your wellbeing, here’s what you need to know.
Written by: Pippa Thackeray
Written on: July 23, 2025
Pippa is a content writer and qualified Nutritional Therapist (DipNT) creating research-based content with a passion for many areas of wellbeing, including hormonal health, mental health and digestive health.
As a contributor to The Healf Source, she regularly attends seminars and programmes on a plethora of contemporary health issues and modern research insights with a drive to never stop learning. In addition, interviewing experts and specialists across The Four Pillars: EAT, MOVE, MIND, SLEEP.
In her spare time, she is an avid swimmer, mindfulness and yoga lover, occasionally bringing a raw, honest approach to the topics she faces. You may also discover some personal accounts of eye-opening wellbeing experiences amidst the reality of a disorientating, and often conflicting, modern wellbeing space.
- 1. Why evening chocolate could interfere with proper rest
- 2. Processing caffeine and theobromine in the later hours
- 3. Cocoa and the nervous system
- 4. How chocolate timing affects your internal rhythm
- 5. What about magnesium? Chocolate’s calming mineral may have its limits
- 6. Get chocolate benefits without the disruption
- 7. How chocolate really affects your sleep
- 8. The bottom line
