How Does Time Restricted Feeding Affect Metabolism?

The light between the early 1970s and the late 1990s helped identify genes that regulate timing. Once those genes had been identified, it became possible for us to ask questions about how this system is intertwined with processes such as sleeping or eating. In doing so, we observed that animals that have disturbance in their mechanism for timing have reproducible defects in the control of energy balance. We can manipulate genes that are in the place in the brain that responds to the sunrise each day which is called the central clock or the master clock.