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do for a human treadmill,

they run much longer when they are on

time restricted feeding

than the ad lib fed control,

suggesting that there is

some cardiovascular benefits

to time restricted feeding.

- I'm up in the morning,

I feel like I'm alert quicker

than I have been previously.

- I would say that obesity

is probably the single major

largest challenge in America these days

in terms of overall health

and chronic disease.

- The category of people

who are very obese

and they're not necessarily

consuming significantly

more calories.

Oftentimes, these people

have some difficulty

sleeping through the night

and so if they're getting up

later in the evening or

early in the morning,

they'll just go and have a snack.

They'll have something to

eat or something to drink.

That actually increases

their total eating time

to much greater than 15 hours.

In fact, they may be

eating 20 hours a day.

- Flying back on the plane,

I'm reading the study,

I'm starting to understand

what's going on.

There was a third group of mice

that was really interesting.

They had a control

group that was five days

on the time restricted feeding

regime and two days off

and so the idea is that might mirror

our five day working schedule

and our two day off schedule.

- So I wanted to try

whether you could party

on the weekend.

So I had one group of mice that were only

on time restricted feeding

during the weekdays

but then they would have full

access, so 24 hours access,

to foods during the

weekends so we called this

the 5T2A regime for five days

on time restricted feeding

and two days of ad lib

starting on Friday night.

Good news is there's no

difference between being

seven days on time restricted

feeding or only five days

on time restricted

feeding at least in mice.

So if you're mice, you

can party on the weekend.

- All of healthcare

should be embracing this.

We should be using this.

- [Michael] We're really not

telling people what to eat,

we're telling people when to eat.

I think that this could

give us an excellent way

to initiate a long-term

and effective treatment

for obesity.

- Even if you eat healthy

foods after 7 P.M.,

you actually push your body,

you push your pancreas,

your beta cells, and you

actually become more inclined

to develop pre-Diabetes and Diabetes.

- When we compared the

high fat diet fed animals

and the ones that were on

time restricted feeding,

there was a massive difference.

Basically the ones on

time restricted feeding,

they don't have this Type

2 Diabetes problem anymore.

- From what I've seen,

when someone adopts

time restricted feeding,

that's all they need to do.

That's all they need to

do to completely reverse

this hyperglycemia,

to completely take them out

of this pre-Diabetic state.

I had one woman who was running

pre-Diabetic for two years.

We had her follow time restricted

feeding for a few weeks

and her blood sugar came back normal,

absolutely normal.

We tested her again a few months later

and her blood sugar was again normal

as well as her hemoglobin

A1C and that hemoglobin A1C

is a marker for your blood

sugar over the past three months

and so for her, the burden

of developing Diabetes

was completely lifted.

She didn't have to worry

about that disease entity anymore at all.

- Diabetes is completely off the chart.

Metabolic syndrome is off the chart.

We can't solve that

with drug interventions

but a cultural change where

we learn to eat in that window

where we were at before,

that seems kind of doable.

It's the kind of thing

that a group could start,

you could teach children in school,

we could observe that at

home, we could walk the talk

and that might make such a big difference

on a national scale that it

actually moves the needle.

- If physicians are more

involved in helping people

make this lifestyle change,

I think it will be an

overall cost savings for the,

just medicine in general

because we're going

to be spending less on medication.

We're going to be

spending less on disease.

You know, that super size me guy should do

his whole routine again,

he should do his whole eating

that super size me diet

but under a shorter time frame

and I wonder if he'd have

all those health effects.

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- What we're doing here

is really reversing

all of Type 2 Diabetes

and all it's downstream

complications with fasting.

- I've worked with Jason

for 17 years in nephrology

and we were just watching our patients die

from Diabetes essentially,

watching them get more and more obese,

watching their blood sugars

get worse and worse and worse,

their medications go through the roof.

They're on like two or

three pages of medications

and every time we saw a patient,

they were on more and more drugs.

- And I was basically holding their hand

as they had their heart attacks,

as they went on dialysis, as

they developed kidney failures

and strokes.

- That's how we got into

this in the first place.

It was really disheartening

to watch people die

before our eyes.

- So one day, I was talking to a friend

and she was talking about doing a cleanse

and I realized that really

what she's talking about

is a fast and I thought, wow,

that's a really stupid idea

but then I thought for a second, okay,

well this was my initial

reaction and most people

have that same sort of

eye-rolling reaction

to the word fasting and I thought,

okay, but I'm a physician.

What exactly is it that's

so bad about the fasting?

Because she actually had

pretty decent results.

She always says she feels better,

she doesn't feel hungry

and I thought okay, well,

that's very interesting.

So then I started to look at the fasting

and I thought why not?

Like why not have people fast?

I mean, what honestly is

more obvious than fasting?

If you don't eat, your

blood sugars will come down,

and you no longer need

your diabetic medications.

Hey, that's great.

If you don't eat, you will lose weight.

Hey, that's great.

Where's the downside?

- [Megan] Ann's hemoglobin

A1C was so high that the lab

couldn't detect it.

- Groups like Alcoholics

Anonymous and Weight Watchers,

they're all group based sessions.

- [Megan] So Ann, can you

tell us about your first fast?

- They're not individually

counseling sessions

because you're losing a very important

support structure there.

- Yes, Dr. Fung said seven or 14 days.

- So that's one of the

lessons we've learned

and we've gone to these

kind of group sessions.

- In the beginning,

it's a pain in the butt to get over that,

the first two day hump

and then after that,

it's really easy.

It seems really easy like I

can't believe I'm not eating

so I stopped at 10 days.

- Since then you haven't touched insulin.

You haven't needed to.

- No, if I went Monday, Wednesday, Friday,

but then you're going

through those hunger pains.

You know, like where

your stomach's growling,

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