Intermittent Fasting, Muscle Loss & Growth Hormone
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 21 February 2018
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Dr. Berg, 51 years of age is a chiropractor who specializes in weight loss through nutritional & natural methods. His private practice is located in Alexandria, Virginia. His clients include senior officials in the U.S. government & the Justice Department, ambassadors, medical doctors, high-level executives of prominent corporations, scientists, engineers, professors, and other clients from all walks of life. He is the author of The 7 Principles of Fat Burning.
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| 0:00.0 | So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or in a minute fasting, |
| 0:04.4 | whether you're starting keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or we have a question about a product. |
| 0:10.5 | Call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 5405.7. |
| 0:29.0 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Kito and Interminute fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting loss and |
| 0:50.0 | intermittent fasting. Now a lot of times people will ask me well I'm a little concerned about doing intermittent fasting. Now a lot of times people will ask me well I'm a little |
| 0:53.4 | concerned about doing intermittent fasting whether it's even eating two meals a day with |
| 0:57.1 | no snacks or three meals a day without snacks they're concerned they're |
| 1:00.1 | going to lose their muscle mass or they want to work out and build muscle mass. And so when I tell them to lower the amount of protein, they kind of freak out sometimes because they think, oh my gosh, I'm going to become atrophied. Well, let's just kind of dive deeper into really what happens. |
| 1:13.4 | There's really two types of hormones. |
| 1:15.4 | Hormones that are catabolic, which means they break things down, okay? |
| 1:20.6 | And the main catabolic hormone is cortisol.'s very destructive so even when you work out and you break your muscles down |
| 1:27.6 | or you go through a major stress and break your muscles down |
| 1:32.3 | The hormone responsible for that is called cortisol, but then the body is supposed |
| 1:36.7 | to recover when you're sleeping through opposite hormones which are more anabolic. So the anabolic hormones build things up and that's what people want. |
| 1:46.5 | They want to build muscle mass, they want to retain their muscles, they want to get lean body mass. Well, growth hormone is the main |
| 1:55.0 | hormone that does that. It does several things. It's the main fat burner. It |
| 2:00.3 | creates protein growth. It builds lean body mass, it's anti-aging. So in Guyton's physiology, my |
| 2:09.7 | friendly book here, textbook, I want to show you something on page 888. It says right here, |
| 2:17.0 | growth hormone also mobilizes large quantities of free fatty acids from the adipose tissue. So basically it dissolves fat. |
| 2:26.0 | And these in turn are used to supply most of the energy for the body cells, |
| 2:31.0 | thus acting as a potent protein sparer. Okay, so what does that mean |
| 2:36.8 | protein spare? It means that it spares protein. It protects the loss of protein. |
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