Effect of Eating Within a Limited Time on Sugar Sensitivity and Liver Sugar Stores of People With Type 2 Diabetes.

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

21 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2019-01-31

Study Completion Date

2021-02-03

Brief Summary

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Modern life is characterized by a 24-hour lifestyle in which food intake is no longer restricted to daytime. As a result, people nowadays tend to eat throughout the day. When food is being consumed the energy is both used and stored for later use. Eating for a prolonged period of time makes it unnecessary for the body to use its energy storage. It is hypothesized that the decreased use of energy stores has detrimental effects on our sugar balance, mainly on insulin sensitivity. Conversely, eating within a limited period during the day could improve insulin sensitivity in people with type 2 diabetes by an increased use of energy reserves, specifically liver sugar stores. Therefore, this study examines the effect of eating within a limited time frame during the day on insulin sensitivity and liver sugar stores of people with type 2 diabetes.

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Detailed Description

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Modern life is characterized by a 24-hour lifestyle in which food intake is no longer restricted to daytime. Interestingly, the majority of people spread their food intake over \~15 hours per day. This implies that most people experience a relatively short post-absorptive (fasting) state during night time. Normally, the body relies heavily on hepatic glycogen content to provide glucose and energy during the night, and glycogen stores will therefore decrease over night. In the morning, ingested carbohydrates will be taken up rapidly to replenish glycogen stores. It is hypothesized that in people with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) hepatic glycogen stores may not fully deplete overnight and that restricting food to a shorter period of time during the day will lead to a reduction of hepatic glycogen stores, and thereby improve whole-body insulin sensitivity at the beginning of the day. Therefore, the aim of this study is to investigate if time restricted feeding (TRF) leads to a reduction in overnight-fasted hepatic glycogen stores and improvement in insulin sensitivity in adults with T2DM.

Conditions

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Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

CROSSOVER

Randomised controlled cross-over design with two 3-week arms and a 4-week wash-out period.

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

Due to the nature of this study, it is not possible to mask the intervention effect for the investigator or the participant. During randomisation, the intervention arms will be coded with 1 and 2 and the independent researcher will be unaware which intervention is assigned to which letter. With this approach, concealed allocation will be guaranteed. Additionally, the person in charge with the data quality check and the data analyses will be blinded for the interventions using this same randomisation codes to generate unbiased results.

Study Groups

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Time Restricted Feeding

Participants are instructed to eat within a limited time frame during the day. They are also instructed to keep record of their eating and sleeping record with eat- and sleep diaries.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Time restricted feeding

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eating within a time frame of 10hrs during the day. Outside of this time frame, participants need to refrain from food and energy containing drinks.

Control

Participants are instructed to spread their habitual food intake over at least 14hrs per day. They are also instructed to keep record of their eating and sleeping record with eat- and sleep diaries.

Group Type OTHER

Control

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eating for at least 14hrs per day.

Interventions

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Time restricted feeding

Eating within a time frame of 10hrs during the day. Outside of this time frame, participants need to refrain from food and energy containing drinks.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Control

Eating for at least 14hrs per day.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Signed informed consent
* Caucasian
* Non-insulin treated type 2 diabetes,
* BMI: \>25 kg/m2
* Regular sleeping time (normally 7 - 9 hrs daily)
* Habitual bedtime at 11 PM plus/minus 2 hours

Exclusion Criteria

* Not being able to adhere to a restricted feeding schedule
* Uncontrolled hypertension
* Active cardiovascular disease
* Insulin therapy
* Use of SGLT2 inhibitors
* BMI\>38 kg/m2
* Engaged in programmed exercise for \>3hrs per week
* Extreme early bird or extreme night person
* Heavily varying sleep-wake rhythm
* Shiftwork during last 3 months
* Smoking
* Contra-indication to MRI scanning
* Subjects who intend to donate blood during the intervention or subjects who have donated blood less than three months before the start of the intervention
* Subjects who do not want to be informed about unexpected medical findings during the screening/study, or do not wish that their physician is informed
* Unstable body weight (weight gain or loss \>3kg in the last 3 months)
* Significant food allergies/intolerance (seriously hampering study meals)
* Participation in another biomedical study within 1 month before the first study visit, which would possibly hamper our study results
* Any other medical condition that will preclude the safe performance of the measurements

Minimum Eligible Age

50 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

75 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No