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your body is constantly using protein to maintain your muscle. When you starve your body of protein, you lose the ability to maintain your muscle, and your body
by LegitShady 4y ago
your body is constantly using protein to maintain your muscle. When you starve your body of protein, you lose the ability to maintain your muscle, and your body begins to lose muscle as well, even though it does a bunch of stuff to try to stave that off.
- chiefalchemist 4y agoRight. So you're not actually burning muscle - instead of fat - per se. Instead muscle wastes as the body isn't maintaining it. While it's not a controlled study, History Channel's "Alone" (reality survivalist show) always touches on lack of food and its affects.
- DiggyJohnson 4y agoThis just seems like a roundabout way of saying: water fasting results in loss of muscle and fat tissues. By the internal logic of this thread, and since I don’t see any way to intake protein on a water diet, where is the nuance?
- LegitShady 4y agothey're splitting the hair between "muscle wasting" and "burning muscles". I don't know if its a question of internal logic or not. They are separate things, and when you fast your body does some stuff with HGH (which can skyrocket hundreds of percents) which I've read is supposed to reduce some of the expected muscle loss. They're technically correct, the best kind of correct (?)
- DiggyJohnson 4y agoWe completely agree - I was forcing myself to be less blunt, frankly. Well put.
- chiefalchemist 4y agoThe gist of my point is, the body can't use muscle as a replacement for fat. The best it can do is not invest in muscle upkeep, and redirect that energy / resources elsewhere.
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