#302: Leonie Heilbronn, PhD – Alternate-Day Fasting, Early Time-Restricted Feeding & Caloric Restriction
Sigma Nutrition Radio
Danny Lennon
4.8 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2019
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Associate Professor Leonie Heilbronn is the leader of the Obesity and Metabolism group based at the University of Adelaide, Australia.
She has a sustained record of translating basic discoveries in nutrition to humans and has contributed to current concepts of caloric restriction (CR), intermittent fasting (IF) and time restricted eating (TRE) in humans.
She is keenly interested in understanding mechanisms of insulin resistance in skeletal muscle and in adipose tissue utilising nutritional perturbations. She is an Associate Editor of Obesity and Obesity Research and Clinical Practice.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, you are listening to Sigma Nutrition Radio, the podcast that brings you deep discussions |
| 0:06.1 | about nutritional and health sciences. I'm your host, as always, Danny Lennon. Now, if you've been |
| 0:13.3 | someone with a keen interest in the general topic of intermittent fasting and have read research |
| 0:20.1 | papers in this area over the years, you will |
| 0:23.0 | have no doubt came across the name of Leonie Heilbronn, if you've been keeping an eye out |
| 0:28.0 | on some of the lead authors on some of those big papers. |
| 0:32.3 | And Leonie is today's guest on the podcast. |
| 0:36.1 | Leone is the leader of the obesity and metabolism group at the University of Adelaide in Australia, |
| 0:41.7 | and her research over the years has focused on the concepts of caloric restriction, |
| 0:48.1 | intermittent fasting, and more recently time-restricted feeding in humans. |
| 0:52.9 | And of course, this is a very interesting area because when it |
| 0:56.1 | comes to the original calorie restriction literature, and in particular people looking at this from |
| 1:01.9 | the perspective of how it impacts certain health markers, particularly in the field of longevity, |
| 1:07.8 | fasting has emerged as something that has parallels or similarities with that and so has now become a focus of much of the same lines of research. |
| 1:18.6 | Of course, there are very different types of intermittent fasting protocols and some of the early work that was particularly done on alternate day fasting, a lot of that came |
| 1:29.5 | from Dr. Heilbronn's lab. And so if you've read a lot of the alternate day fasting literature, |
| 1:35.6 | you're probably already familiar with Leonie's name. Or if not, if you go back and check most |
| 1:41.6 | those papers you read, you'll probably find she was lifted as one of the authors there. |
| 1:46.2 | So on today's podcast, I wanted to focus on a few core areas related to not only the calorie restriction and intermittent fasting literature, but also some recent papers her group has done on time restricted feeding, which we've obviously |
| 2:02.9 | discussed on several podcasts recently. So the focus today is looking at different types of fasting, |
| 2:09.8 | looking at in what ways do calorie restriction and fasting have similarities and how does that |
| 2:15.9 | explain why they are looked at in relation to longevity? |
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