Posted on 07/02/2021 8:19:22 AM PDT by ConservativeMind
A new University of Kentucky College of Medicine study suggests that time-restricted eating may be able to help people with Type 2 diabetes reduce nocturnal hypertension, which is characterized by elevated blood pressure at night.
The study found that imposing time-restricted feeding prevented diabetic mice from developing nondipping blood pressure. The practice also effectively restored the disrupted blood pressure circadian rhythm in mice that already had nondipping blood pressure.
Normally, blood pressure falls at night and increases upon awakening, in line with the body's circadian rhythm. In some hypertensive patients, the typical nighttime decrease does not occur. This "nondipping" blood pressure is prevalent in patients with Type 2 diabetes and is associated with increased events of cardiovascular disease.
Researchers restricted the mice's access to food to eight hours during their typical active awake times every day. When food availability was increased to 12 hours, the practice was still effective in preventing and treating nondipping blood pressure. Guo says this is evidence that the effects were caused by the timing of feeding and not calorie restriction.
In addition to the study's significance for future clinical research in people, Gong says it's adding to scientists' understanding of the causes and mechanisms of nondipping blood pressure in diabetes, which is currently not fully understood.
"There are already many studies that show the health benefits of time-restricted eating, particularly for metabolic issues," Gong said. "This is the first basic science research focused on how it impacts nondipping blood pressure related to diabetes and it reveals that the daily timing of food intake could play a critical role."
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Something positive occurs when food (I would think the dysfunction surrounds carbohydrate use) is restricted and not allowed an extended time to adversely influence blood pressure regulation over 24 hours.
I do know people who go low carb or who greatly reduce weight achieve much better blood pressure regulation.
It sounds like eating calories all through the day and evening is inherently unhealthy for Type 2 diabetics (and obviously others).
I intermittently fast between bites...
Bkmk
I don’t have diabetes, but I discovered I had astronomical blood pressure a couple of years when giving blood. I refuse to reduce my life to being a revenue stream for the big-bureaucrat/big-pharmaceutical criminal-complex and will NEVER go on any medication of any kind, ever.
I got it under control with alternate-day fasting and nattokinase + serrapeptase.
Alternate-day fasting does get pretty hard after awhile, but it works.
Is that anything like...only eating when you’re hungry?
I lost about 40 pounds last year without even really trying. I ate anything I wanted between noon and 6. Took a new job that required high energy in the morning and went back to normal eating and gained 20. Thinking about changing jobs to more be more consistent with the intermittent fasting, I was feeling pretty good.
I fast every evening between 10 pm and 6am
No, it is exactly what it sounds like. I have a 12-hour window where I eat whatever I want every other day.
There are clinical studies to back up its effectiveness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihhj_VSKiTs
As you get older, your internal organs lose their capacity. When your stomach if full, almost all your energy goes to digesting food with nothing left over to heal things and produce hormones. Fasting releases the demand and allows your body to do the other things it needs to do.
https://drmindypelz.com/intermittent-fasting-for-hormones/
A three-day fast before chemotherapy increases its effectiveness and alleviates most of its side-effects.
Yep, I do a similar fast. Most days I don’t eat a thing until lunch. Which is just a small portion of cheese or meat and a bit of veg. Dinner time I start getting genuinely hungry, and that’s when I eat “normally”...i.e. like a pig. :)
The pounds are dropping off. It works!
I try to eat between 2PM and 6PM. So basically, skip breakfast, late lunch, early dinner.
Not really, “hungry” is often just a signal that the body wants more carbs.
If you think about it, why for example would an obese person be “hungry”? They have enough fat stores to live for months.
Intermittent fasting is a lot like working out, except it is a metabolic workout. It forces the body to burn up the glucose in the bloodstream, muscles and liver. It’s an effective way to burn fat, but research studies are showing vwry promising benefits apart from simply burning off pounds, it has very positive effects on blood pressure and “blood lipid parameters”, meaning cholesterol, allergies and asthma, and inflammation, even possibly warding of cancer, and immune system response, something very relevant today with the you-know-what viruses deployed around the world.
When your stomach if full, almost all your energy goes to digesting food with nothing left over to heal things and produce hormones
So that's why all those old guys (which I guess includes me now) fall asleep on the couch after a holiday meal!
Our bodies evolved under feast-or-famine conditions.
We are not built for continuous feast.
My direct observations as a Type 2.
Easily testable by anyone with the disease.
I finally spent some time to watch Jason Fung’s video about insulin resistance and treating Type II with fasting or restricted eating times. It makes a lot of sense.
If we eat frequently our body is flooded with the insulin that we are resistant to and we become even more resistant to it.
Fung appears to be becoming much like the young doc who was so maligned about the benefits of Vitamin D3 and in time has been proven right.
It looks to me like there is a lot of bad medicine being practiced in treating Type II such as the recommendation by some to eat smaller meals more often. That just keeps the insulin pump primed all the time. Not good.
I can testify that the discipline not to eat anything white and to just give up on between meal snacks is more than just a little difficult. Weaning off of food is similar to when I quit my 50 year habit of chewing tobacco. You just have to quit buying the stuff and quit period. Any backsliding lights the fire again. Sort of reminds me of my days offshore on rigs, you have to put going home out of your mind and let the day you get on the helicopter come as a surprise.
If we can really burn off all the carbs as we bring them in, our health issues are greatly minimized.
Unfortunately, we can possibly do enough activity to burn all carb calories off just as they enter our bloodstream, all day and night long—especially if our glucose and insulin regulation mechanisms are already overwhelmed and dysfunctional.
The alternative with carbs is to eat less of them until our dysfunction is truly healed and no drugs are involved. No drug addresses the root cause of our carb dysfunction.
I only eat when I’m hungry. I know I’m overweight but not obese. Ingesting minimum amounts of sugar helps!
Fasted for a week back in the day. Amazing things happen after day two.
Bkmk
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