Every time I see a fasting study with weight as its primary endpoint (aka the main outcome being tested), a tear rolls down my cheek.
And no, not a tear of joy because the fasting group lost so much weight it made the obesity epidemic optional. It’s because we already know how that movie ends. Match the calories, or stack fasting up against plain old calorie restriction, and the weight loss comes out about the same. The scale is measuring the wrong thing.
Because the cool, sexy, actually health-promoting changes from a strategic meal-timing protocol don’t show up on the scale. They show up in your labs. Because they happen at the cellular level.
And this new study on daily time-restricted eating in one of the gnarliest brain conditions on the planet, Huntington’s disease, gives us a fascinating new look at exactly that.
Here’s why you should stop judging your fasting protocol by the scale…
