Nature Communications (Jan 2021)

Time-restricted feeding normalizes hyperinsulinemia to inhibit breast cancer in obese postmenopausal mouse models

  • Manasi Das,
  • Lesley G. Ellies,
  • Deepak Kumar,
  • Consuelo Sauceda,
  • Alexis Oberg,
  • Emilie Gross,
  • Tyler Mandt,
  • Isabel G. Newton,
  • Mehak Kaur,
  • Dorothy D. Sears,
  • Nicholas J. G. Webster

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20743-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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Obesity and its associated metabolic changes, including hyperinsulinemia and aberrant circadian rhythms, increases the risk for a variety of cancers including postmenopausal breast cancer. Here, the authors show that restricting when mice eat, but not what or how much they eat, delays breast cancer initiation and reduces tumor growth in obese mice in addition to improving insulin sensitivity and restoring circadian rhythms.