Amie Hiller, professor of neurology at OHSU, said: \u201cWeight loss is a major challenge for many people with Huntington\u2019s disease, so asking them to eat within a limited time window seemed counterintuitive.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat was exciting about this study is that participants were able to maintain their weight while showing signs that the intervention may be positively affecting the disease itself.\u201d<\/p>\n
She added: \u201cWe do not currently have any disease-modifying treatments for Huntington\u2019s disease. If future studies confirm these findings, this could become an approach available to people regardless of where they live or their financial resources. That makes it particularly exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n
One participant Anna White, 52, from Portland, US, has continued fasting since the study ended and believes it has helped her maintain cognitive function.<\/p>\n
\u201cMany people have told me that, for a 52-year-old woman with as much movement as I have, I am still self-aware and sharp,\u201d she said. \u201cI try to finish The New York Times crossword puzzle every day, and I think the time-restricted eating has helped.\u201d<\/p>\n
The research team is pursuing funding for a larger, randomised clinical trial that would compare time-restricted eating with standard dietary habits to determine whether the apparent benefits are real and can be sustained in the long term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amie Hiller, professor of neurology at OHSU, said: \u201cWeight loss is a major challenge for many people with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[7276,59,102,50,5438,208138,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-776388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-brain-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-news","tag-standard","tag-sunday-telegraph-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}