Why Doesn’t Intermittent Fasting Cause Muscle Loss? – Dr.Berg

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so I want to create a quick video to answer this question why doesn’t muscle loss occur during fasting or in a minute fasting okay it has to do with this one single hormone called growth hormone human growth hormone when you do fasting or imminent fasting you majorly trigger this hormone in very large quantities and growth hormone protects and preserves body protein and muscle is a body protein and there was some research done that validates this what they did is they had this group of people take a drug which suppresses growth hormone okay so we just take growth from the picture while this group of people were fasting okay and what they found was they actually lost 50 percent of their muscle without the help of growth hormone so growth hormone is the key factor that preserves and protects your muscles from being lost fat is the tissue that is used for fuel okay when there’s no food available muscle is not the tissue used as a fuel source only as a last-ditch effort to help you survive when you’re starving but you would have to be very very into that stage of starving and very sick before that happens so exercise is really the main tool to help you build muscle fasting in a minute fasting is a tool to protect and preserve the muscle from being a lost as well as in the reparative functions of muscle alright thanks for watching hey guys so I hope you’re gonna make it to the Kido House summit October 13 and 14 now we’re going to cover a tremendous amount information but there’s one thing that I think is going to be very important to fully understand it’s a situation where someone is fasting doing one meal a day and it’s really healthy keto yet still the person is only losing tiny amounts of weight per week okay like barely anything we’re going to talk about exactly why that is what to do and how to correct it and it usually has nothing to do with metabolism this information is completely brand-new and not on any YouTube videos so click the link below get signed up and I will see you in October