Time-restricted eating

Neuroscientist · Huberman Lab

Compresses the eating window, typically skipping breakfast and finishing food several hours before bed.

Founder · Blueprint longevity protocol

All of his food goes in the first half of the day, finished well before evening, which he ties directly to his sleep results.

Host · Modern Wisdom

Stays fasted until early afternoon most days, usually eating from around one or two o'clock.

Biohacker · Bulletproof Coffee

His own version, Bulletproof Intermittent Fasting, swaps breakfast for a fat-only coffee and runs the fast to lunch or later. He writes that he sticks to the classic form most days and breaks it with collagen in the cup on the days he trains. Purists would not count a buttered coffee as a fast, and he knows it.

Actor · Wolverine and The Greatest Showman

Runs a 16/8 window when bulking so the size goes on without fat. He finds it far easier than eating every two to three hours, which he found brutal, and says he sleeps much better on it. Spoken in 2017, around the Logan press tour.

Actor · Friends and The Morning Show

In 2019 she told Radio Times she does intermittent fasting with no solid food in the morning, and that she noticed a big difference from going 16 hours without eating; Sundays were a cheat day. She described herself as a night owl who wakes around 8:30 or 9. Whether she still fasts is not something she has said recently.

Retired Navy SEAL officer · Jocko Podcast

Hunger does not arrive until mid-morning, and he eats in a compressed window most days, framing it as simplicity rather than a metabolic protocol.

AI researcher · Lex Fridman Podcast

Mostly one meal a day, though he says he keeps it flexible rather than rigid.

Physician · The Dr. Hyman Show · author of Young Forever

Leaves at least 12 hours between dinner and breakfast every night, and stretches that to 14 or more three or four times a week to give his body what he calls a chance to do autophagy.

Actor and producer · The 2:30 a.m. daily routine

Eats between noon and 6 p.m. on most days, an 18-hour fast five days a week, with a longer eating window on harder training days. He told the Wall Street Journal he does less cardio and less gym time on the schedule and feels he is getting better results, and quickly.

Biomedical scientist · FoundMyFitness

Eight in the morning to six in the evening is her eating window, and she has covered the circadian side of meal timing with the researchers who study it.

Actor · Limitless and Centr

After bulking for Thor: Love and Thunder he dropped the weight with a 16:8 eating window, according to trainer Luke Zocchi, who says it worked because it suits his lifestyle and keeps portions in check.

Natural bodybuilder · Science-based lifting

Intermittent fasting shows up in his writing as anecdote and as a tool. His protein article points to the fasting community getting jacked on one or two meals a day as a sign that large protein doses are not wasted; his get-lean guide lists it as a help for people who do not want to count calories. He himself prefers loosely tracking calories and protein.

Nutrition scientist and powerlifter · Biolayne

Once recommended against intermittent fasting on the strength of his own protein research, and lists it among the things he has changed his mind on: a standard 16:8 window does not appear to cost lean mass, he now says, so long as people lift, eat enough total protein over at least three meals and train inside the feeding window.

Physician · The Drive · author of Outlive

Early on he advocated prolonged fasting, then publicly stepped back, concluding it cost him muscle without a clear payoff.

Ultra-endurance athlete · The Rich Roll Podcast

Fasting and eating windows come up with many guests, though he notes high training volume changes the calculation considerably.

Entrepreneur · The Diary of a CEO

Meal timing and fasting have been covered from several angles without him settling on a fixed protocol.

Author · The Tim Ferriss Show

Extended fasts and various eating windows have all been run as personal experiments, with results he reports as mixed rather than dramatic.