They say that in order to lose weight, nothing beats diet and exercise. The former means that you need to limit your food intake and the latter means you need to work on building muscle to stay in shape. However, some health experts do suggest that there’s a better way to shed those excess pounds. Counting calories don’t always work.
In fact, some people have cut portions off their meals so much and come out more frustrated than ever when they don’t see the weighing scale tip to the direction they like. While there is no clear consensus on how effective diets can be. keeping off weight and shedding pounds requires commitment.
Some publications suggest that 95 percent of dieters have failed. Hence, it shouldn’t come as such a surprise that some folks out there approach dieting with a certain degree of trepidation and sometimes, hopelessness.
So, how exactly does one lose weight? What is the most effective way to diet out there? Dr. Satchin Panda may have found a way. He outlines a strategy which could prove far more effective, especially when it comes to the person’s long-term health. He hypothesizes that it’s not about counting calories. Cutting out sweets, dairy, and fat may have nothing to do with overall health. He claims that it’s all about time-restricted eating. What does this exactly mean? Simply put, you must limit the period of food consumption during the day. This is done to coincide with your circadian clocks. It’s also about giving your metabolism time to recover and your cells time to rebuild from your meals. He has designed the TRE or Time-Restricted Eating.
Some may look into this method and question Dr. Panda. After all, some strategies have taught you otherwise. However, as a health expert, the doctor took time to study. Over the course of his research and reading, he has observed a variety of positive results from those who have used the time-restricted eating strategy. When this is done, he has observed the reduction of symptoms related to autoimmune diseases such as irritable bowel syndrome and multiple sclerosis.
As Dr. Panda says, “So what we see in our study, a small study that was published, and also some of the other studies that may be in the pipeline, is that when people adopt a time-restricted feeding in their regular life – in real life, not in the laboratory condition or in clinical trials – then they naturally reduce their caloric intake without even counting calories. So, for example, when they stop, suppose their target to stop is around 6:00, 7:00, or 8:00 in the evening, then the late night snacks and then the late night glass of wine or beer that used to be their usual habit, they stop that. So in that way, they’re doing two things: one is reducing calories and [the other is] improving nutrition quality because that extra energy-dense diet is not getting into their system.”
A lot of experts were involved in this study. The Host was Ronda Patrick. She has a Ph.D. in biomedical studies from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, and Saint Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis. Aside from being a podcast host of Found My Fitness, Patrick is also a brand new mom and a researcher. She enthusiastically engages her audience when she talks about the long-term effects of clinical nutrition when it comes to health and aging, cold and hot exposure therapy, the gut microbiome, exercise physiology, and other related topics that covers the topic of functional medicine.
In Patrick’s podcast, she invited Dr. Satchin Panda to become a guest. After all, Dr. Panda is a professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California. He studies circadian biology on a regular basis and has, in fact, published multiple peer-reviewed studies on many different topics related to the human internal circadian clocks. For those who are more interested in what he has to say, his materials are found on his profile at the Salk Institute’s website. Additionally, he has also written a book and is the author of “The Circadian Code.” This is a guide to losing weight and “transforming your health from morning to midnight.”
Dr. Panda is an advocate of TRF or Time-Restricted Eating. In gist, animal models were used. The method that may not be known to all has been shown to prevent and reverse certain aspects of metabolic diseases. A human pilot study was made and impressive results were made. The experts saw that TRE helps reduce the risks of metabolic diseases in an otherwise healthy person.
However, it has also been found that patients with diagnosed metabolic syndrome often undergo pharmacotherapy. It has never been tested whether TRE can act synergistically with pharmacotherapy in both animals and humans. From the research made, they found that TRE intervention improves cardiometabolic health for those with metabolic syndrome receiving standard medical care including high rates of statin and anti-hypertensive use.
It has also been discovered that TRE can be a potentially powerful lifestyle intervention that can be added to standard medical practice to treat those who suffer from metabolic syndrome. More importantly, this may be a good way to supplement long term health for those who are looking into permanent lifestyle changes, especially in eating habits.
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