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Welcome everyone this is Dr. Mercola helping you take control of your health and I am joined

today by Dr. Mindy Pels who is quite a bit of expertise in a topic that is near and dear to my heart

which is goes by a number of names I'd prefer the term time restricted eating or TRE it's actually

TRF time restricted feeding if you're referring to animals but humans we go with the eating and a lot

of people they'll refer to it as intermittent fasting and I think that's not accurate correct or

correct because it goes into that's a much broader category and time restricted eating in my view

is probably one of the most foundational strategies stay healthy and I'm just going to go on a

little bit before I bring Dr. Pels on because I'm just passionate about this I the person who

brought it to our attention for the most part there's a number of researchers but the primary one

is Dr. Sachin Ponda who's out of the South Institute and working on this for almost two decades now

I think he deserves a Nobel Prize for this but the reason why it's so important is one of the most

profoundly important strategies to address what affects 19 of 20 people in the United States 19

and 20 people in the United States are metabolic and flexible that is the lost the ability it seems

to transition between burning fat and carbohydrates is the primary fuel and that is documented by a

study that was published in July this year in the journal American Cardiology that reference that

and Haynes data they actually found 93% but the data was from 2018 which is four years ago

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