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

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

healthy weight.

Hey guys Dr. Burg here in this video we're going to talk about the pre and post workout

meal myth that's right you heard me right it's a myth now I know so many people have told

you you need to eat before the workout or after to basically replace your glycogen reserve

or build more muscle mass so let's talk about each one in depth number one what is a glycogen

reserve you have a certain storage of sugar in your muscle so glycogen is the storage of

sugar it's in the liver it's also in your muscles okay it's not a lot if you were to work out

it's going to be tapped out in about a half hour okay and then after that you're going to be

burning fat so why in the heck would you ever want to eat anything sweet before during an

after a workout right that doesn't make sense because if the goal is to burn fat then we have to

burn off the sugar before we get to the fat because that's how the body works so everything after

half hour is all sugar and then after that is fat burning okay so the other thing is that if you

were going to eat a high concentrated protein like way protein the more concentrated that protein

is the more it will also trigger insulin so a whole egg with fat has much less response for insulin

concentrated protein way protein powder okay so every time you consume more concentrated protein

you're stimulating insulin what does insulin do it stops fat burning completely so every time

you're doing the protein you're actually raising insulin in fact every time you eat you stimulate

insulin so why would you ever want to eat around your workout see the whole goal is to use exercise

to stimulate your metabolism to then tap into the fat reserves that you have and make your own fat

the meal that you're eating not the dietary meal so I recommend not eating anything before during

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