Fasting as an Intervention to Alter Impacts of Simulated Night‑Shift Work on Glucose Metabolism

Fasting as an Intervention to Alter Impacts of Simulated Night‑Shift Work on Glucose Metabolism

Type: Crossover randomized controlled trial

Registration: Diabetologia record

Status: Published

Tags: Chrononutrition, Diabetes, General population, RCT

External URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00125-024-06279-1

Summary

Meal timing intervention (fasting across the night) mitigated impairments in glucose metabolism during simulated night shifts.

Why It Matters For Night Shift Workers and Night Owls

This crossover design whether keeping most calories in a daytime window, with minimal overnight intake, found blood sugar for night‑shift workers and night owls. The signal puts timing—rather than only calories or macros—at the center of how bodies respond to working at night. For people who work nights, that frames an everyday choice (when you eat, how you light the end of a shift, how rest is split) as part of the mechanism, not just routine.

Tags

  • Chrononutrition
  • Diabetes
  • General population
  • RCT

Notes

Open‑access preprint summary: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11663163/

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