Energy balance
Time-Restricted Feeding (TRF) aligned with the active period improves metabolic health markers (body weight, cholesterol, insulin levels) in mice without reducing overall food intake.
Consider Time-Restricted Feeding (TRF) by limiting your eating window to 8 hours per day, ideally aligned with your active period. This approach can improve metabolic health markers like body weight and cholesterol without requiring caloric restriction, by aligning food intake with your body's circadian rhythms.
Placing animals on a TRF regimen does not impact overall food intake, but improves a number of traits associated with metabolic pathology including reduction in body weight, serum cholesterol, hepatic triglyceride levels, and insulin level fluctuations in microflora that are protective against the development of obesity.
Why this rating
Based on animal models (mice and fruit flies), translational potential to humans is noted but not yet confirmed in large human trials.
Source
Impact of Sleep and Circadian Disruption on Energy Balance and Diabetes: A Summary of Workshop Discussions
Deanna M. Arble et al. · SLEEP · 2015
DOI 10.5665/sleep.5226
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