Does Circadian Eating Help People Like It Does Animals? EAT RIGHT TO SLEEP TIGHT. BATON Diet Blog 6
The Gill and Panda Study of 156 People “Living in the Wild”
Part 1 of the Gill and Panda Study
The Panda Labs at the Salk Institute researchers found very few studies had been published on when people eat. As we know people do not have very consistent eating schedules in our modern culture.
- The first question that had to be answered was when do people eat?
- The second question was can changing the time people eat impact health?
- The third question was if it works, will people be willing to change when they eat for the long-term? And will the results of the health changes hold up over time?
At first a little discouraging news came to the researchers when they started asking people when they ate. Most people said they were eating 3 meals a day in a 12-hour window.
However, when the same people were given a smart phone app and asked to take a picture just before eating a revelation occurred. Gill S, Panda S. 2015 Cell Metabolism (2029)
People recorded when they ate and took a picture of what they ate. They recorded when they exercised, and when they slept.
“Surprisingly, in contrast to the self-reported 3 meals/day structure of meals from most of the participants, a breakfast-lunch-dinner temporal pattern was largely absent....At the individual level, the number of events per day showed wide variation…” Gill S, Panda S. 2015 Cell Metabolism (2029)
9 out of 10 people were eating more than 12 hours per day.
(2029)
1 of 2 people were eating more than 15 hours per day. (2029)
“When our eyes are open our mouths are open.”
“In summary, there is a systematic bias toward consuming a larger portion of the daily caloric intake toward the late afternoon and evening hours…in general, food consumed after 6:36 p.m. exceeded the maintenance calories requirement.” Gill S, Panda S. 2015 Cell Metabolism (2029)
Typical eating events patterns for people were shown on a 24-hour clock. Each mark on the 24-hour clock represented one eating event. Shown here is a sample of the type of eating patterns for 6 typical people in the study. Half of the people in the study were eating unless they were sleeping.
This is a change from past generations who lived with food insecurity/scarcity and without electricity and refrigerators. With electricity for perpetual light and plentiful food for round the clock eating we can upset the natural genetic circadian design resulting in disruption of the synchrony between our body clocks and our brain master clock.
Part 2 of Gill and Panda Study
8 Overweight People Eat During 10 Hours Per Day
Plan:
Researchers asked 8 overweight or obese people from part 1 of the study, who
were not shift workers, and who were eating for more than 14.75 hours per day, if they would like to participate in a study to determine the health effects of circadian time restricted eating.
Each person was allowed to choose their own 10 hour eating window. Then they would water fast for 14 hours at night.
No restrictions on calories or types of foods were placed. (2029)
Results after 16 weeks:
The people lost 4.4% bodyweight.
They had unintentionally and naturally reduced the amount (calories) of food they ate.
They reported less hunger at bedtime.
People felt more energetic in the morning and had more overall energy.
People voluntarily continued circadian eating (TRE or time restricted eating). (2029, 2068)
After the Gill and Panda initial study was completed, researchers followed up one
year later and discovered to their surprise that people had voluntarily continued time restricted eating (TRE) to support their circadian rhythm. A bonus was that they had maintained their weight loss on their own one year later. When these people were asked why they chose to continue circadian eating, their answers were not any of the benefits discovered by the research but instead were new benefits of circadian time restricted eating (TRE) that once again surprised the researchers in Panda Labs at the Salk Institute. (2029, 2068)
People in the Panda study made their own very important discovery and revealed it to researchers. People in the study discovered the magic of eating right to sleep tight. This is the subject of our next blog.
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