Caloric Restriction and Time-Restricted Eating: What the Trials Show
Two years of 12% calorie restriction improved nearly every cardiometabolic marker. A 16:8 eating window, tested head to head, did not. The difference matters.
Topics nutrition
Fuel, timing, protein and the honest state of the diet evidence.
Food is an input to a system that is already running, not a lever with one setting. We look at what the body does with fuel, protein and timing, and at how much of the popular advice the research will actually carry. This is the most crowded subject in the field, so these pieces spend as much time on the state of the evidence as on the conclusions.
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Two years of 12% calorie restriction improved nearly every cardiometabolic marker. A 16:8 eating window, tested head to head, did not. The difference matters.
Older muscle needs about 68% more protein per meal to mount the same response. But the trial evidence for extra protein alone is far weaker than the marketing.
Many people think of food simply as a source of calories. But from a biological perspective, food does much more than provide energy.
Most people think of food in simple terms:
Talks from the Watchlist that cover this system. Massy Labs did not make these; they are here because they are worth the hour.