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Time-Restricted Feeding Is a Preventative and Therapeutic Intervention against Diverse Nutritional Challenges
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Because current therapeutics for obesity are limited and only offer modest improvements, novel interventions are needed. Preventing obesity with time-restricted feeding (TRF; 8-9 hr food access in the active phase) is promising, yet its therapeutic applicability against preexisting obesity, diverse dietary conditions, and less stringent eating patterns is unknown. Here we tested TRF in mice under diverse nutritional challenges. We show that TRF attenuated metabolic diseases arising from a variety of obesogenic diets, and that benefits were proportional to the fasting duration. Furthermore, protective effects were maintained even when TRF was temporarily interrupted by ad libitum access to food during weekends, a regimen particularly relevant to human lifestyle. Finally, TRF stabilized and reversed the progression of metabolic diseases in mice with preexisting obesity and type II diabetes. We establish clinically relevant parameters of TRF for preventing and treating obesity and metabolic disorders, including type II diabetes, hepatic steatosis, and hypercholesterolemia.
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“Later mouse studies have demonstrated benefits of TRF when using multiple variations of dietary and temporal control and also suggest that TRF can even stabilize or reverse the progression of metabolic diseases (85).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Chaix, A., Zarrinpar, A., Miu, P., & Panda, S.
- Affiliations
- Salk Institute for Biological Studies (US)
- Corresponding author
- Panda, Satchidananda
- Venue
- Cell Metabolism
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2014-12
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 991-1005
- ISSN
- 1550-4131 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4255155
- OpenAlex
- W2171666144
- Cited by
- 956
- References
- 43
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- FWCI
- 30.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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- Licence
- Locations
- Cell Metabolism (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- American Diabetes Association
- American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases
- Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust
- Philippe Foundation
- National Institutes of Health
- National Eye Institute (R01EY016807, P30EY019005, EY016807)
- National Cancer Institute (P30CA014195)
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences (P50GM085764)
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (R24DK080506, T32-DK07202, R01DK091618, T32DK007202, DK091618-04)
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NS066457, R21NS066457)
- National Center for Research Resources (S10RR027450)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology (medical) › Dietary Effects on Health
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Endocrine and Autonomic Systems › Regulation of Appetite and Obesity
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism › Diet, Metabolism, and Disease
- Keywords
- time-restricted feeding, obesity prevention, type 2 diabetes, metabolic disorders, fasting duration, obesogenic diet, hepatic steatosis, hypercholesterolemia, intermittent fasting, ad libitum feeding
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Energy Intake, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Dietary Fats, Feeding Behavior, Metabolic Diseases, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Obesity, Time Factors, Weight Gain, Mice
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