According to a study by researchers at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), time-restricted feeding can have a positive impact on athletes in terms of both their health and performance. The effects of time-restricted eating—where food intake is permitted within a restricted window ranging from 3–4 to 10–12 hours—have been widely studied in the general population, where they have been shown to increase life expectancy, but there is little evidence of its positive effects on high-performance athletes.