Posted on 08/17/2021 12:18:13 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
Time-restricted eating (TRE), a dietary regimen that restricts eating to specific hours, has garnered increased attention in weight-loss circles. A new study by Salk scientists further shows that TRE confers multiple health benefits besides weight loss. The study also shows that these benefits may depend on sex and age.
Breaking the conventional young-male-mice mold, the researchers fed a high-fat, high-sugar diet to male and female mice of two age groups (equivalent to 20- and 42-year-old humans), restricting eating to nine hours per day.
Analyzing the tissues of mice on TRE to ascertain their chemical makeup and processes, the researchers found that regardless of age, sex or weight loss profile, TRE strongly protected against fatty liver disease, a condition that affects up to 100 million Americans and for which no medicine has been approved.
"This was our first time studying female mice, and we weren't sure what to expect," says first author Amandine Chaix. "We were surprised to find that, although the females on TRE were not protected from weight gain, they still showed metabolic benefits, including less-fatty livers and better-controlled blood sugar."
The researchers also found that TRE may protect both males and females from sepsis-induced death—a particular danger in ICUs, especially during the pandemic. After administering a toxin that induced a sepsis-like condition in the mice, the researchers monitored survival rates for 13 days and found that TRE protected both male and female mice from dying of sepsis.
TRE didn't just protect against fatty liver disease, diabetes, and death from sepsis; it even enabled male mice to preserve and add muscle mass and improve muscle performance (the effect did not hold for females). This finding is particularly significant for the elderly, for whom improved muscle performance can help guard against falls.
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Not new ... See Jason Fung
The study refers to (equivalent to 20- and 42-year-old humans).
imho much of the dietary restrictions older people need to go on are not as necessary for young people.
And here I’ve been eating for only a few seconds to 30 minutes at a time my whole life.
Even that much is only an inference from a mice study.
However, this sort of study would not be hard to replicate in humans.
Limiting eating to 9 hours a day is not a very difficult regime.
Eliminate breakfast and being able to eat from 10 am to 7 pm should not be too difficult for most people.
It’s much easier (and healthier) to exercise in a fasted state as well. I eat in a 3-4 hour window everyday and have never felt better. Hardly ever hungry anymore either.
I restrict my eating to my waking hours.
Yes, intermittent fasting.
I liked Fung’s book.
I think he’s spot on, but it’s a lifestyle that’s not easy to live if you’ve spent 70 yrs some other way.
I do intermittent fasting. I eat a small snack by 7:00pm and nothing else until 11:00am the next day. That’s a 16 hour fast. I eat between 11:00am and 7:00pm.
The only time I eat before 11:00am is if the arthritis in my foot is really bad and I need to take an Ibuprofen.
The article is very weak in explaining TRE, providing only one detail and then only once - restricting eating to a nine hour period (other experts say 6-10).
In practical terms it means that if the first meal commenced at 8 in the morning, the last meal would end at five in the evening. It has a type of modified fasting effect on metabolism.
For your arthritis, if osteo, please look into 3 - 6 mg of boron a day.
You might find lasting relief.
I think that there’s something to this. Years ago when I was younger and thinner, I basically ate no breakfast. I had ate an early lunch around 11 and then dinner around 6, i.e., a 7-hour window. And that was it.
As family and work circumstances changed, my eating window has stretched to more like 11-12 hours.
Thanks! One foot is osteo in the big joint behind my big toe. The other foot is from an injury. I have a cyst type arthritis in the cuboid joint and osteo in the same big joint behind that big toe. I’ll look up the Boron.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3761669/posts
Amazing inflammation and pain reduction in even the most severe osteo cases. You'll need to page through to the referenced study information.
Basically, everyone I know who started using it no longer has osteo issues. It doesn't rebuild cartilage or block pain, but it reduces overactive inflammation signals with bone while superbly lubricating joint locations.
It gets it done in severe cases within two months at 12 mg/day. The study used fructoborate, but a tri-boron type pill should do well.
Agree 1100 %. This is my experience as well.
I meant to write 100% :D. lol.
Sounds like exactly what I need. Checking it out for sure.
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