Intermittent Fasting and Muscle Mass Gain
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 2 October 2022
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Is it possible to gain muscle mass while doing intermittent fasting? Find out.
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| 0:00.0 | So, let's answer the question, is it possible to gain muscle mass when you're doing an |
| 0:26.0 | intermittent fasting? Let's say you want to get the benefit of doing intermittent fasting, |
| 0:29.8 | get you also want to gain muscle. How would you do it? Well, there's several factors here. |
| 0:36.0 | Sometimes people have this idea that they have to spike insulin to grow their muscles. |
| 0:41.3 | So, they're going to do carboloding because, after all, if you stimulate carbohydrates, |
| 0:46.4 | you'll trigger insulin and insulin is an anabolic hormone. Makes sense, right? |
| 0:52.0 | But in reality, when you stimulate insulin that much or too much, you create insulin resistance. |
| 0:58.4 | And if you have insulin resistance, you can't absorb amino acids that well anymore. This is why |
| 1:04.5 | a prediabetic or a diabetic or someone that has insulin resistance doesn't absorb protein or |
| 1:11.4 | amino acids that well. So, here you are trying to gain muscle mass, but all this glucose and this |
| 1:17.8 | insulin is creating a resistance to that protein going in your body. There's this product called |
| 1:24.8 | Sirius Mass, and I have a picture of it right here where you're supposed to take this product and |
| 1:31.4 | bulk up, right? Two scoops is 252 grams of carbohydrates. This is two scoops. And the first ingredient is |
| 1:42.3 | multi-dextrin. Okay, this is way worse than sugar. It's way worse than hypertus corn syrup. |
| 1:48.8 | It's like 110, I think I see in the index. So, what's going to happen? You are going to bulk up, |
| 1:53.8 | but you are going to bulk up with a lot of fat. This is going to spike your blood sugars and create |
| 2:00.0 | a lot of complications. All right, let's talk about some other factors. I'm going to recommend you do |
| 2:06.2 | two meals a day. Okay, if you're trying to develop more muscle mass, not one meal a day, but two |
| 2:11.9 | meals a day. And at the very minimum, do intermittent fasting 16 hours. So, you're basically fasting for |
| 2:18.8 | 16 hours and you have an eight hour eating window. So, let's say your first meal is at 10 in the morning |
| 2:24.8 | and your next one is at six. And you can do any pattern you want, but to starting out, this would be |
| 2:30.8 | the very minimum to start seeing improvement because we want to do intermittent fasting to spike |
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