Why Doesn’t Muscle Loss Occur During Fasting?

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

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🗓️ 15 January 2019

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Dr. Berg answers the question of why muscle loss doesn’t occur during fasting. It has to do with this one single hormone called Human Growth Hormone which protects and preserves body protein. When doing this fasting or intermittent fasting, the human growth hormone is triggered in very large quantities. Fat as a fat-burning fuel and muscle as the last-ditch effort to help with starvation will also be discussed. Exercise is the main tool that helps build muscle while fasting or intermittent fasting is a tool to protect and preserve the muscle, as well as its reparative functions from being lost.

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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.
0:13.4	Call 540991557.
0:17.4	That's 540299-1557.
0:21.0	That's 54099-155.
0:21.6	Welcome to the Dr. Berg, Healthy Kito and Intermediate fasting podcast.
0:29.0	Now your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level.
0:34.0	Dr Eric Berg.
0:36.0	So I want to create a quick video to answer this question,
0:39.0	why doesn't muscle loss occur during fasting or in a minute fasting. It has to do with this one single
0:47.1	hormone called growth hormone, human growth hormone. When you do fasting or imminent fasting, you majorly trigger this hormone in very large
0:56.9	quantities and growth hormone protects and preserves body protein and muscle as a body protein.
1:05.0	And there was some research done that validates this.
1:07.0	What they did is they had this group of people take a drug
1:11.0	which suppresses growth hormone, okay the picture while this group of people
1:17.8	were fasting.
1:18.8	And what they found was they actually lost 50% of their muscle without the help of growth hormone.
1:26.6	So growth hormone is the key factor that preserves and protects your muscles from being lost.
1:33.8	Fat is the tissue that is used for fuel,
1:38.6	okay, when there's no food available.
1:41.5	Muscle is not the tissue used as a fuel source,
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