{"id":242465,"date":"2026-08-10T05:02:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T10:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/time-restricted-eating-may-help-retain-cognitive-function-in-older-adults"},"modified":"2026-08-10T05:02:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T10:02:55","slug":"time-restricted-eating-may-help-retain-cognitive-function-in-older-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/time-restricted-eating-may-help-retain-cognitive-function-in-older-adults","title":{"rendered":"Time-restricted eating may help retain cognitive function in older adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/time-restricted-eating-may-help-retain-cognitive-function-in-older-adults2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Results from a small clinical trial suggest it may be possible to reduce the risk of dementia by eating during fewer hours of the day. The pilot study, which involved a weight-loss program for older women with overweight or obesity, showed modest cognitive improvements among those who limited their daily eating window instead of just reducing their calorie intake.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLosing weight alone will ward off some of the aging-related cognitive decline, and these data suggest that there may be additional benefits if you stop eating four hours before going to sleep and reduce food intake to 8\u20139 hours per day, compared with the usual eating window of 12 hours per day,\u201d said Sue Shapses, Ph.D., RD, DFASN, professor at Rutgers University and Rutgers-RWJ Medical Center and the study\u2019s principal investigator.<\/p>\n<p>Shapses\u2019 group will present the findings at NUTRITION 2026, the flagship annual meeting of the American Society for Nutrition, held July 25\u201328 in National Harbor, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Results from a small clinical trial suggest it may be possible to reduce the risk of dementia by eating during fewer hours of the day. The pilot study, which involved a weight-loss program for older women with overweight or obesity, showed modest cognitive improvements among those who limited their daily eating window instead of just [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}