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New Science, Ancient Wisdom… or Are We Asking The Wrong Question? When science gives an old behaviour a new name, who gets recognised as the expert? Time-Restricted Eating (TRE) is becoming one of the more interesting conversations in midlife health. In simple terms, TRE is a way of eating where you only consume food within a set number of hours each day. For example, eating all your meals between 10am and 6pm and then having nothing but water or non-caloric drinks outside

A highly experienced woman walks into a meeting she has chaired dozens of times. She knows the figures. She understands the politics. She has spent years building the authourity to command the room. Yet halfway through her presentation, the words disappear. Her sleep has been fractured for months. Her concentration is unreliable. Her confidence is beginning to erode. She suspects stress, overwork or burnout. Her employer sees a performance problem.

For many of us, no one warned us it was coming. Our mothers did not talk about it. Our aunties changed the subject. The leaflet at the GP surgery did not look like us and when our bodies started to shift, the sleepless nights, the anxiety, the rage, the grief we could not name, we did what we were raised to do. We got on with it. But getting on with it is costing us. The evidence now confirms what many of us have always felt.