Dr Marc-Andre Cornier Discusses the Future of Research on Weight Loss, Diabetes

Time-restricted eating and other fasting weight loss methods can help improve metabolic outcomes, said Marc-Andre Cornier, MD, endocrinologist, professor, and director of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases at the Medical University of South Carolina.

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What are you looking forward to regarding the future of research on weight loss and diabetes?

I think that's a hot area of, you know, is it more important when you eat or is it more important what you eat and how much you eat? It's probably a combination of all those things.

But there's a growing repository of studies looking at time-restricted eating, alternate-day fasting, [and] intermittent fasting. These terms are not interchangeable. These are different things. But these offer patients another option and and are potentially important also for metabolic outcomes, as well.