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THE TIME OF THE DAY WE EAT WILL AFFECT THE BRAIN · Your Daily Dose

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  Speaker 1: You know, when we talk about cognition and brain functionality,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we start saying it's eating bad foods or
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  Speaker 1: stress or you can go down the whole list. Could
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  Speaker 1: something as simple as about when we eat our meals
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  Speaker 1: affect our brain functionality? A new study says, yeah, it
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  Speaker 1: very well could be. Stay tuned. Hi, and welcome to
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  Speaker 1: For people trying to lose weight, Eating less may not
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  Speaker 1: be the only benefit. A small randomized trial suggested restricting
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  Speaker 1: meals to an earlier, shorter window would also sharpen planning,
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  Speaker 1: problem solving, and other aspects of executive function, even when
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  Speaker 1: both groups lose about the same amount of weight. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I've got to tell you that for the last, let's say,
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  Speaker 1: five years since I pseudo-retired, um, My wife and I
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  Speaker 1: have made a point when I'm home to eat our
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  Speaker 1: dinner at an earlier hour, 2, 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: And we do find that we are functioning at a
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  Speaker 1: different level like that. This randomized controlled trial set out
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  Speaker 1: to answer a simple but important question. When people lose
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  Speaker 1: weight by eating less, do their brains benefit simply because
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  Speaker 1: they've lost weight, or does the timing of meals matter
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  Speaker 1: on its own? That question's been hard to answer before now.
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  Speaker 1: People who practice time-restricted eating tend to lose weight anyway,
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  Speaker 1: making it difficult to separate the effects on the brain
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  Speaker 1: from those of weight loss itself. To find out, the
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  Speaker 1: researchers recruited 47 post-menopausal women who were overweight or obese
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  Speaker 1: and split them into two groups. Both groups cut out
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  Speaker 1: 500 calories per day from their diet. One group ate
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  Speaker 1: within a normal 12-hour window, for example, breakfast at 7.30
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  Speaker 1: and nothing after 7.30. So breakfast at 7.30 a.m., nothing
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  Speaker 1: after 7.30 p.m., 12-hour window. The other limited eating to
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  Speaker 1: a shorter window earlier in the day, 9 hours or less,
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  Speaker 1: with most eating within 8 hours, finishing their last meal
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  Speaker 1: about 4 hours before bed. After 6 months, both groups
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  Speaker 1: lost about the same amount of weight, but only one
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  Speaker 1: group showed cognitive improvement. On a battery of cognitive tests,
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  Speaker 1: The earlier time-restricted eating group scored significantly better on problem-solving
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  Speaker 1: and planning, a cluster of skills researchers called executive function.
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  Speaker 1: That covers things such as working memory, mental flexibility, resisting impulses,
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  Speaker 1: and strategic thinking. Memory and learning improved. Reaction time and
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  Speaker 1: multitasking didn't improve, but neither did seed quality in either group.
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  Speaker 1: I felt surprised because it's hard to get significant findings
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  Speaker 1: And we found them, said Sue Shapaz, study author and
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  Speaker 1: professor of nutritional sciences and director at the Center for
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  Speaker 1: Human Nutrition, Exercise, and Metabolism, Rutgers University. Executive function alone
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  Speaker 1: encompasses working memory, cognitive flexibility, inhibitory control, planning, problem solving,
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  Speaker 1: strategic thinking, and impulsivity assessment. And that was our largest effect,
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  Speaker 1: so it was very interesting, she said. The study wasn't
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  Speaker 1: designed to prove why timing helped, but researchers have a
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  Speaker 1: leading theory. Circadian rhythm. Our bodies run on an internal clock,
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  Speaker 1: and nearly every organ has its own daily cycle that
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  Speaker 1: affects how well it functions. There's a master clock in
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  Speaker 1: the brain in a region called the suprachiasmatic nucleus that
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  Speaker 1: is activated by light entering the eyes, and that governs sleep,
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  Speaker 1: body temperature, metabolism, and hormone production. The organs also have
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  Speaker 1: their own clocks called peripheral clocks. What we eat and
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  Speaker 1: when we eat helps to set those. Normally, the master
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  Speaker 1: and peripheral clocks stay in sync, but eating at odd
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  Speaker 1: hours can throw them out of alignment. Betsy Mills, a
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  Speaker 1: neuroscientist and associate director of the Aging and Alzheimer's Prevention
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  Speaker 1: Program at the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation, who was not
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  Speaker 1: involved in this study, said that combined evidence so far
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  Speaker 1: suggests that the brain benefits of of restricted eating are
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  Speaker 1: strongest when the eating window is shifted earlier in the day,
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  Speaker 1: a concept researchers called chrononutrition. Mills said the brain benefits
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  Speaker 1: of time-restricted eating appear to depend on aligning meals with
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  Speaker 1: the body's natural circadian rhythm by eating earlier in the
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  Speaker 1: day and avoiding late-night meals. Both researchers cautioned that diet
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  Speaker 1: quality still matters. A shorter eating window isn't a substitute
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  Speaker 1: for eating well. Mills points to eating whole foods such
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  Speaker 1: as vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and fish, and cutting back
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  Speaker 1: on sugar and ultra-processed foods as important measures. Schaps is
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  Speaker 1: also careful by drawing conclusions because the findings are preliminary
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  Speaker 1: and still being analyzed. Based on the study's findings, Schaps
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  Speaker 1: wants to investigate the mechanism underlying timed eating and test
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  Speaker 1: whether the cognitive benefits also encourage people who aren't trying
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  Speaker 1: to lose weight, since this trial only included women actively
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  Speaker 1: losing weight. Is that enough to convince you to do
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  Speaker 1: your eating habits differently? Maybe you can't. Maybe you're at
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  Speaker 1: work or whatever. But if you have the capability of
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  Speaker 1: making those changes, I think it's a strong, strong idea
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