The Healthy Heroes Study (Time‑Restricted Eating in Emergency Responders)

The Healthy Heroes Study (Time‑Restricted Eating in Emergency Responders)

Type: Protocol / Registration

Registration: NCT03533023

Status: Completed

Tags: Chrononutrition, Clinical trial, First responders

External URL: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03533023

Summary

Trial registration describing a 10‑hour time‑restricted eating intervention in 24‑hour shift emergency responders.

Why It Matters For Night Shift Workers and Night Owls

Evidence here whether keeping most calories in a daytime window, with minimal overnight intake, shows sleep, alertness, recovery, and metabolic markers 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
  • Clinical trial
  • First responders

Notes

Related RCT publication linked above (firefighters).

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