Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight.

Now, is it possible to build muscle and lose fat at the same exact time?

Well, let's talk about each point and how they relate to each other.

Let's start with exercise.

Exercise is responsible for about 15% of fat loss. And so your diet would have contributed to about 85%.

So there is some benefits of exercise for fat loss.

The key with building and maintaining muscle growth is this right here,

intensity of exercise, as well as the volume of exercise because if you're doing

keto and you're losing weight and you drop out your exercise you're not going to continue to

build muscle in fact it might shrink a couple of the points to consider recovery of the exercise

if you over train and don't recover, let's say you're working out

every single day and also adding on to that, you're not sleeping because you're stressed out,

then the benefit of this is not going to be there. So you really need all these factors in place.

The cool thing about exercise is it can stimulate growth hormone up to 700%.

That's huge.

And growth hormone helps you build muscle.

Now let's switch to the carbs.

The lower the carb, the more the weight loss, right?

But carbs stimulate insulin, which is an anabolic hormone.

It makes things grow so now

we have a problem if we go with too many carbs over 50 grams it's gonna stop

the weight loss but what if we did this what if we consumed a little more

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