The daily rhythm of eating and fasting may help maintain muscle health by facilitating glycogen and protein breakdown and synthesis.

“So they may be making and breaking glycogen, making and breaking triglyceride on a daily basis, or protein on a daily basis. So in that way I think they may be maintaining much better muscle health. Because they're also going through some gluconeogenesis, they're breaking down some protein. So maybe some of the structural proteins that get modified and maybe they get damaged, they're kind of getting cleansed, they're getting cleaned out of the system by this eating and fasting rhythm.”