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An old fashioned way of fasting preserves muscle mass way better due to hormonal response. It only kicks in after 30-40 hours of fasting. I don’t think that a l
by f311a 3y ago
An old fashioned way of fasting preserves muscle mass way better due to hormonal response. It only kicks in after 30-40 hours of fasting. I don’t think that a lot if people practice 3-4 of fasting when doing IF.
- 876978095789789 3y agoLonger periods of fasting reduce testosterone, which probably negates whatever GH benefit it provides: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9182756/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9182756/ And why would your body go out of its way to preserve metabolically more expensive tissue during longer periods of deprivation?
- f311a 3y agoAny kind of caloric restriction lowers it temporarily. There is some evidence that testosterone levels can be even higher after the fasting https://josepheverettwil.substack.com/p/how-fasting-changes-testosterone https://josepheverettwil.substack.com/p/how-fasting-changes-...