Intermittent Fasting May Help Treat Metabolic Syndrome

The study in cell metabolism finds that restricting eating to a 10-hour period improves a variety of parameters of the metabolic syndrome.

I want you to think about the first calorie you consumed yesterday. Mine was probably the sugar in my coffee around 6 am.

Now think about the last calorie you consumed yesterday. Mine would have been some sugar in my tea around 930 pm.

Most adults in the US are like me — consuming calories over around a 15-hour period.

But if you haven’t been living under a pizza lately, you will have heard of intermittent fasting, a dietary plan that extols the virtue of prolonged fasts to reset the metabolism. The details on any individual plan vary, but the central idea revolves around time restricted eating (TRE) — limiting caloric consumption to specific hours on the clock. And now, thanks to this paper appearing in Cell Metabolism, we have some evidence that a relatively modest time-restricted…