Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast.

Where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing

healthy weight.

So, I recently had a question, should I work out when I'm fasting?

Well, let's talk about that.

So many people have this idea that they have to eat before the exercise to get energy

for whatever reason.

So, let's first talk about the three or four variables to exercise.

You have the type of exercise, you have the intensity of the exercise, how hard did you

go, and then the duration, how long you go, and then you have the recovery.

So, the purpose of exercise is to make you more fit, to increase the health of the

system, to build more capacity, more fitness, to actually have less stress.

There's many benefits of exercise, but those are some of them.

So what you're doing is you're stressing your body, and then your body's going to adapt

to that and prove various things.

You have to be careful not to over train because overtraining will inhibit your sleep,

keep your inflammation up, and reduce your gains.

So it's always kind of an adjustment, figuring out what your optimum amount of intensity, duration,

and recovery is.

If you overtrain, and let's say you only give yourself a few hours to recover, you're

not going to actually see any change.

Now, in the recovery mode, this is when all the good things happen, glycogen, reserve,

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