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Short-term time-restricted eating (8-hour window) improves 24-hour glucose homeostasis (reduced area under the curve) compared to an extended 12-hour eating window, despite identical food intake.

Compressing your eating window to 8 hours (e.g., 10 AM to 6 PM) can significantly improve your daily blood glucose control, even if you eat the exact same amount of food as you would over 12 hours. This is achieved by shifting meal times to delay breakfast and finish dinner earlier, which helps manage glucose spikes.

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From continuous glucose monitoring, 24-hour total area under the curve was reduced following TRE... p = 0.001.
Evelyn B. Parr et al. · Obesity · 2022

Why this rating

RCT with continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) data, objective and robust, though short duration.

Source

Eight‐hour time‐restricted eating does not lower daily myofibrillar protein synthesis rates: A randomized control trial

Evelyn B. Parr et al. · Obesity · 2022

DOI 10.1002/oby.23637

rct · n=18Cited 25×
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