Dr. Satchin Panda on Time-Restricted Feeding and Its Effects on Obesity, Muscle Mass & Heart Health
Why Hacker News recommends it
Recommended in threads on fasting and nutrition as a deep dive from the lead researcher on time-restricted eating.
What it is
Rhonda Patrick interviews Salk Institute researcher Satchidananda Panda about circadian rhythms and the timing of food. They cover time-restricted feeding and its links to obesity, muscle mass, heart health, and light exposure.
Recommended by 5 HN commenters across 4 different months, 2017 to 2018.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec dominotw · 2018-06 · on “Losing 100 pounds in 276 days”
I listened to a super interesting podcast about fasting [this video] Dr. Panda goes into detail about fasting and coffee. Great podcast about fasting. Intermittent Fasting Confers Protection in CNS Autoimmunity by Altering the Gut Microbiota [LINK]
Recommends dpatrick86 · 2017-04 · on “You Can’t Trust What You Read About Nutrition”
Interestingly, this has been the approach of a dietary study being conducted by a group doing research on a circadian-focused pattern of eating. The study uses a mobile app as part of their distributed clinical trial design. Participants take pictures of their food with only the option of further journaling. Kind of cool. Here's the website for the trial (& app)... [LINK] Here's a video of the principal investigator (Satchin Panda) talking about his research... [this video]
Recommends eneveu · 2017-06 · on “The secret to a long and healthy life? Eat less”
The issue with Ramadan is that they eat at night. It is indeed intermittent fasting, but it is not as good as intermittent fasting where you eat during the day, because eating is related to peripheral oscillators of our circadian rhythm. I heard about that a few weeks ago while listening to this podcast by Dr. Rhonda Patrick: [LINK] This article might also be of interest: [LINK] As well as this video interview: [this video]
Recommends moochachana · 2017-06 · on “The secret to a long and healthy life? Eat less”
The reason you feel sick is because you're body isn't used to the shift from carbohydrates for energy and ketones as energy (body fat). You get brain fog because only fat in the form of ketones can cross the blood brain barrier. So adaptation to ketones are vital. You need to work into it. No different from exercise, or climate adaptation. Having cold showers shifts your body into using ketones more and more. Regarding not eating breakfast, watch these videos from FoundMyFitness: Dr. Satchin Panda on Time-Restricted Feeding and Its Effects on Obesity, Muscle Mass and Heart Health [this video] Ruth Patterson, Ph.D. on Time-Restricted Eating in Humans & Breast Cancer Prevention [LINK] Time restrict
Recommends bodhibyte · 2018-09 · on “Molecule produced during fasting has anti-aging effect on vascular system”
I'm on a day 4 of a water-only fast and have completed a two-week medically supervised fast as well as many other shorter fast. As an anecdote, I can say water-only fasting in combination with a high nutrient density plant-based diet has helped me overcome some serious allergies and other health conditions. As an added bonus, I've lost 65 pounds from my peak weight over the last few years and my weight has been stable. It's not a panacea, but I've found it to be a net benefit. For those interested in a deeper dive on the benefits of water-only fasting and diets that try to mimic its benefits, as well as time-restricted feeding, see: Valter Longo, Ph.D. on Fasting-Mimicking Diet & Fasting for