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
Meal timing intervention (fasting across the night) mitigated impairments in glucose metabolism during simulated night shifts.
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.
Open‑access preprint summary: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11663163/