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Thursday, November 5, 2026

Overnight repair is not only about protein. It is also about whether your body is fighting inflammation while it works.

The casein issue fed the rebuilding. This one lowers the noise the rebuilding happens against.

The food is tart cherry, the sour Montmorency kind. It does two useful things at once in the last hour.

First, it carries its own melatonin. Not a large dose, but real, food-level melatonin that nudges your sleep timing.

Second, its deep red pigments are anti-inflammatory. Those compounds, the anthocyanins, blunt the inflammation and oxidative stress that follow a hard day or a hard workout.

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Lower inflammation overnight is the part that ties to recovery. The body repairs more cleanly when it is not also fighting a fire.

So it works on two fronts of the same night. A little melatonin toward sleep, and anti-inflammatory compounds toward recovery.

For the morning that can mean less of the stiff, inflamed, worn feeling. Especially if your days are physically demanding.

The anchor is a study by Howatson and colleagues in the European Journal of Nutrition. Adults who drank tart cherry concentrate for a week raised their melatonin and improved their sleep time and efficiency over placebo.

Be honest about the evidence. The positive studies are small, and at least one recent trial found no benefit, so this is promising and mixed, not settled.

TONIGHT

Here is the move. Drink tart Montmorency cherry juice or diluted concentrate, one serving in the last hour, and in the studied protocol one earlier in the day.

Use unsweetened tart cherry, not a sweet cherry cocktail loaded with sugar, which would work against you on glucose. The sour Montmorency variety is the one the research used.

Give it a week or two, since like the melatonin and saffron levers it builds rather than hits at once. The melatonin it carries is small, which fits the low-dose point from the melatonin issue rather than working against it.

One caution. If you already take melatonin it can add up, and the sugar and potassium in a lot of juice matter if you watch either, so keep the serving modest.

Overnight repair runs best on two things at once, material to rebuild with and a low fire to rebuild against. Tart cherry is a small lever on the second.