Welcome to the Dr. Berg, Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast.

Now, your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level.

Dr. Eric Berg.

Here's a good question.

Can you actually grow your muscles when you're doing intermittent fasting and keto?

Now, I have done other videos down this, but I want to go more into the exercise part of this

because if you're doing intermittent fasting and keto and you're not doing exercise,

you're not going to grow your muscles, okay?

Why?

Because the most important stimulus to muscle hypertrophy, which is growing muscle,

is the intensity of the exercise, intensity of the exercise.

Now, before I get into the exercise part, I want to talk about the foundation that surrounds this because

when you do intermittent fasting consistently and you're actually adapted to ketosis,

you will have higher levels of human growth hormone.

And human growth hormone does cause the growth of muscle and it also prevents the loss of muscle.

Now, on the opposite spectrum, if you're eating frequently through the day and you have insulin resistance

and you have blood sugar issues or you're pre-diabetic or diabetic,

you're going to have less amino acids going into that muscle.

You're going to have more atrophy.

So this is an important principle to consume two meals a day, maybe even one meal a day,

but I think two meals a day would be perfect.

Maybe keep your carbs at the higher end, but not over that, about 50 grams per day,

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