Welcome to the Get Fit Guys, quick and dirty tips to slim down and shape up.

My name is Ben Greenfield.

I'm The Get Fit Guy.

And in today's episode, you're going to learn whether you should even try to lose fat and build muscle at the same time.

Now, back when I was a bodybuilder, it was pretty

common knowledge that one of the best ways to get a nice body, especially if the goal was the

ultimate combination of lean muscle mass and low body fat, was to do something called a bulking

phase of muscle gain, followed by a stripping or a cutting phase of fat loss leading up to

your show, in which one basically

poses on stage in scant clothing while performing a highly entertaining flex-off against fellow

competitors.

Well, new exercise science research suggests that my approach and the approach of many

other professional fitness enthusiasts and workout, open quote, gurus, close quote, could be flawed

when it comes to building muscle and losing fat. And you're about to discover exactly what that

new research says and get practical tips based on this new science that'll help you build muscle

and lose fat, whether you're pursuing bodybuilder-esque bulk or you just want to get a lean body.

Well, this latest study on losing fat and

gaining muscle compared the ability to gain muscle in response to a protein-dense meal in three different

populations, people who are normal healthy weight, people who are overweight, and then people

who were obese. Now, after they consumed 170 grams of pork, which is a 36 gram protein and

three gram fat meal, the subjects were then studied by the researchers to see what their

skeletal muscle antibiotic signaling was, their amino acid transport activity, and something

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