I don’t try hard to eat in a small window, but I come close to an 8 hour window not particularly intentionally. Nor am I particularly wedded to the idea although I do think eating late in the evening before going to bed is not ideal.
The poster itself provides more details.
8-h+TREmortality_EPI+poster_updated+032724.pdf (431.1 KB)
Incidentally the poster has some really high p numbers. I have not tried to audit their conclusions.
I also naturally prefer eating in an 8-9 hour window because I like going to bed on a very empty stomach, but I intentionally make an effort to lengthen my window to 10-12 hours as a result of Valter Longo suggesting a 12 hour window is safer.
His rationale is that a shorter window can lead to gall bladder problems (not that I have one) and that the most long lived people eat in an approximate 12 hour window.
To be honest I am not sure there is much solid evidence on the length of the eating window, but I think it is worth eating early in the evening so that people go to bed having digested their food.
I concur. Even with a sample size of 20K, too many unknowns. Epidemiological studies like this one tend to be hypothesis (and probably headline) generating and call fo RCTs as oppsed to something conclusively establishing causative relationship.
However, definitely worth examining deeper.
It’s a retrospective epidemiological study which makes it mostly worthless. Having said that, I see no benefit to time restricted eating.
My favorite line from the article: “ * The increased risk of cardiovascular death was also seen in people living with heart disease or cancer.” So, if you have heart disease, you have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease.
The weaknesses and outright flaws in this study are too many to warrant serious consideration. This is not to imply that no relationship exists. It is to state that if a relationship should be discovered, this research will have played no part.
The only merit in this study is its potential use as a teaching tool for undergraduate research students.