Paul Saladino· MD
for listeners that may not be aware of protein sparing modified fast and correct me if I get this wrong is basically its carbohydrate and fat limitation and just a moderate amount of protein so on a protein special ok it's low calorie it's around 800 to 1000 calories and you're just eating protein and then they supplement in some essential fatty acids so it's it ok and so if you're getting eight hundred to a thousand calories a day you'd be getting maybe 200 grams of protein quite a bit of protein oh yeah it depends on the size of the person but yeah so basically be be like inducing a little bit of like low fat low carb yeah and high protein and so it's protein sparing but it's a sort of a modified fast because it's hypo caloric yes and they're good and they're gonna get a small amount of essential fatty acids yes which are you said like four grand yeah probably a few other things no no it's it's really just for you know if there's a surgery or you know you needed to get the weight off of an individual quickly I think Cleveland Clinic has a great outline I'll send it to you it actually you know people shouldn't do it on their own no this is something that you should definitely do it the practitioner a lot of these protein sparing fast were actually done in inpatient units too they put them in inpatient units but I'll send it to you it's very nicely done yeah the paper is bare nicely done and I think that it could help people lose weight very quickly