The fasting-and-the-brain study everyone ran this week is registered as a bone trial
This week a Rutgers pilot trial travelled the health press as evidence that a short eating window protects your brain. One outlet ran it as "Time-Restricted Eating May Lower Dementia Risk, Study Finds". Another, written for clinicians, said it "Preserves Cognitive Function in Adults".
No dementia outcome was measured in the trial, in either direction.
It is registered as a bone study
The trial has a registry entry, and the registry is public. NCT05548517 is titled "TRE: Microbiome, Metabolic Health and Bone". Its primary outcome is hip bone mineral density. Cognitive function sits in the third tier — Other Outcome Measures — as one of twenty exploratory endpoints, alongside grip strength, vitamin D and diet quality.
Not one report in the wave mentioned this.
Four cognitive tests. One beat the control group.
We put the full breakdown — every study, every number, with the PMIDs — on our own site.
Originally published at super-achiever.com. We check viral supplement claims against the primary research and publish the results — including the ones that go against us.