PB6 Diet Citations

If you’re like a lot of our clients, you like to know why things work. (Plus you’ve also probably found that asking for details is a great way to quickly weed out the bullshitters.) To that end, here’s some of the science we leveraged in designing the PB6 Diet:

Intermittent Fasting

Adafer, R., Messaadi, W., Meddahi, M., Patey, A., Haderbache, A., Bayen, S., & Messaadi, N. (2020). Food timing, circadian rhythm and chrononutrition: A systematic review of time-restricted eating's effects on human health. Nutrients, 12(12), 3770. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12123770

Antoni, R., Johnston, K. L., Collins, A. L., & Robertson, M. D. (2017). Effects of intermittent fasting on glucose and lipid metabolism. The Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, 76(3), 361–368. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0029665116002986

de Cabo, R., & Mattson, M. P. (2019). Effects of intermittent fasting on health, aging, and disease. New England Journal of Medicine, 381(26), 2541–2551. https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmra1905136

Moon, S., Kang, J., Kim, S. H., Chung, H. S., Kim, Y. J., Yu, J. M., Cho, S. T., Oh, C. M., & Kim, T. (2020). Beneficial effects of time-restricted eating on metabolic diseases: A systemic review and meta-analysis. Nutrients, 12(5), 1267. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12051267

Patikorn C, Roubal K, Veettil SK, et al. Intermittent fasting and obesity-related health outcomes: An umbrella review of meta-analyses of randomized clinical trials. JAMA Netw Open. 2021;4(12):e2139558. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.39558

Paleo Diet

de Menezes, E.V.A., Sampaio, H.A.d.C., Carioca, A.A.F. et al. Influence of Paleolithic diet on anthropometric markers in chronic diseases: systematic review and meta-analysis. Nutr J 18, 41 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12937-019-0457-z

Manheimer, E. W., van Zuuren, E. J., Fedorowicz, Z., & Pijl, H. (2015). Paleolithic nutrition for metabolic syndrome: Systematic review and meta-analysis. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 102(4), 922–932. https://doi.org/10.3945/ajcn.115.113613

Masharani, U., Sherchan, P., Schloetter, M. et al. Metabolic and physiologic effects from consuming a hunter-gatherer (Paleolithic)-type diet in type 2 diabetes. Eur J Clin Nutr 69, 944–948 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/ejcn.2015.39

Mellberg, C., Sandberg, S., Ryberg, M. et al. Long-term effects of a Palaeolithic-type diet in obese postmenopausal women: a 2-year randomized trial. Eur J Clin Nutr 68, 350–357 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/ejcn.2013.290

Österdahl, M., Kocturk, T., Koochek, A. et al. Effects of a short-term intervention with a paleolithic diet in healthy volunteers. Eur J Clin Nutr 62, 682–685 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.ejcn.1602790

Habit Formation

de Wit, S., and Dickinson, A. (2009). Associative theories of goal-directed behaviour: a case for animal–human translational models. Psychol. Res. 73, 463–476. doi: 10.1007/s00426-009-0230-6

Gardner, B., Lally, P., & Wardle, J. (2012). Making health habitual: the psychology of 'habit-formation' and general practice. The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 62(605), 664–666. https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp12X659466

Lally, P., & Gardner, B. (2013). Promoting habit formation. Health Psychology Review, 7(sup1). https://doi.org/10.1080/17437199.2011.603640

McCloskey, K., & Johnson, B. T. (2019). Habits, quick and easy: Perceived complexity moderates the associations of contextual stability and rewards with behavioral automaticity. Frontiers in Psychology, 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01556

Woolley, K., & Fishbach, A. (2017). Immediate rewards predict adherence to long-term goals. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 43(2), 151–162. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167216676480