#025 Dr. Satchin Panda on Time-Restricted Feeding and Its Effects on Obesity, Muscle Mass & Heart Health
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Time-Restricted Feeding in Fruit Flies
Fruit flies are used in science for many, many years and they have a short lifespan. They stay alive maybe 9 to 10 weeks max. So it helps us to figure out whether any interventions like time-restricted feeding will have any positive or negative impact on health span. When these flies eat only for 12 hours, they don't develop that aridmia as quickly as the normal flies do. And when we introduced later in life, they're also improved. Do you know what or why? One connection was back to mitochondria. What we found was that mitochondria were healthier in the sense that maybe they were not producing as much reactive oxygen species.
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