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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chris24Main" data-source="post: 2754607" data-attributes="member: 585131">Not so much the connection to lactose, as the whey protein powder directly causing a spike in insulin. Insulin is released in response to food, is simply that different foods have different responses (ie, it isn't, as much as we tend to think - that insulin is only affected by glucose and sugars in general). Lactose is a whole other thing.For what it's worth, it's actually a processing thing - turning a food into a powder means that it's absorbed much faster in the body - that's really what triggers the high insulin; the body sees a sudden influx of what it thinks is going to be food.I don't agree at all with the protein before bed recommendation, by the way - try it by all means, and what works for some may not for others, but put simply, the best thing you can do for your body and brain during the night, is not give it any digestive work to do. I try to be done eating at least 3 hours before going to bed. The other way of thinking about this, though, is that it takes time to transition smoothly from one state to another - if some late-night protein helps, great, but it's not an inherently good thing to keep doing.</blockquote>

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