Andrew Huberman· PhD
muscle mass lost you're just it's very difficult to gain back the muscle cumulatively after all of that loss
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muscle mass lost you're just it's very difficult to gain back the muscle cumulatively after all of that loss
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I wouldn't go longer than that 'cause then you'll start chewing up your muscle, which you don't want to do.
if you lost a significant amount of lean mass and over time you're aging and I don't want to say that like when you get older there's sarcopenia but if your each time you're going through this fasting period there might be some benefit but if you were to take a hit on your lean tissue sort of consistently over time and your that would be something that you you know you want to sort of jealously preserve is all that lean mass so that would be one of the you know potential contraindications of doing frequent fasts
no more fasting for a while right that was basically her first suggestion which is like we got to take a break from the monthly fasting because that's probably not helping your lean tissue and if we want that to be a goal which is is there any reason we shouldn't be able to put five pounds of muscle on you in the next year her view is i think we can do this but you can't be fasting every month for three to five days
no more fasting for a while right that was basically her first suggestion which is like we got to take a break from the monthly fasting because that's probably not helping your lean tissue
muscle mass loss you're just it's very difficult to gain back the muscle cumulatively after all of that loss
Obviously, with fasting, starvation. You know, if you start to lose muscle mass, then you're fasting too much.
Time-restricted eating produces fat loss independent of total calories.
A 72-hour fast measurably improves autophagy markers in healthy adults.
One-meal-a-day (OMAD) eating patterns increase all-cause mortality in long-running cohort data.
Eating the largest meal before 3pm improves 24-hour glucose vs. an evening-heavy schedule, calorie-matched.