Rhonda Patrick· PhD
And what is interesting in flies, we also saw the flies sleep better when they eat only for 12 hours.
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And what is interesting in flies, we also saw the flies sleep better when they eat only for 12 hours.
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But then when we asked them, "Why did you do it," what is surprising is they said they slept better and they felt more energetic in the morning, and that's why they did it.
And, you know, sleep...bad sleep can also affect biomarkers, and it’s its own risk. So that might be partially...you know, it's partially working through direct metabolic effect but it might be working through other behaviors too by improving sleep and getting more sleep could also help regulate your metabolism and kind of feed into the positive impacts.
One of the already published results that came from people's feedback is when we did the small time-restricted eating study, there were only eight participants. But all eight of them said they slept better, and we had never asked the mice whether they slept better.
So we went back to our Drosophila flies and we saw that they were sleeping better.
But all eight of them said they slept better