Rhonda Patrick· PhD
Mice on time-restricted diets had lower cholesterol & more muscle, suggesting a benefit to periodic fasting.
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Mice on time-restricted diets had lower cholesterol & more muscle, suggesting a benefit to periodic fasting.
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So the mice that were fed a normal chow diet, you know, high in fiber and all these things, vitamins, you said they actually had more lean muscle mass.
We see that only when mice eat for eight to nine hours. We don't see that improved endurance when they eat for 12 hours, although their body weight is maintained as nine hours.
Time-restricted eating produces fat loss independent of total calories.
A 72-hour fast measurably improves autophagy markers in healthy adults.
One-meal-a-day (OMAD) eating patterns increase all-cause mortality in long-running cohort data.
Eating the largest meal before 3pm improves 24-hour glucose vs. an evening-heavy schedule, calorie-matched.