Will Fasting Destroy Your Muscles? Surprising DEXA Results & Tips

What will happen with my lean mass after 7 days of water fast? Lets DEXA scan and find out!

There is a legitimate worry, that as I lose weight during my fasting bout some of it will be from the lean tissue.
BUT...
What if I try every trick to reduce the muscle loss and increase the muscle protein synthesis?

Let's give it a try!

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Insufficient sleep undermines dietary efforts to reduce adiposity:

00:00 Will Fasting Destroy My Muscles?
01:28 Dexa Scan Before Fast
05:11 How to Prepare for Fasting
09:15 Reducing Muscle Breakdown
11:20 Will X Break My Fast?
13:18 Body Composition Trick
16:31 Best MPS Signal
18:10 How to Refeed After a Fast
21:46 More Scans
22:58 Was Peter Attia Wrong?
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[livingsmart]

Finally! I wanted to make this DEXA experiment for years now (even before Attia), but was always putting it off for "the better times".
I got some clarity and hopefully will continue to scan on a yearly basis now.
If you are interested in the fasting, here's a short video where I compare 3, 5 and 7 days fast and their unique benefits:

[pasagerul]

Great video! As always! Thanks for sharing your experiment! To me, the first re-feed day is so difficult, because once i eat something, it is very hard to stop! the full hunger gets alive and angry! :)

[HealthExperiment]

How often do you do it? What other benefits other than eyesight have you noticed?

[orsonica]

Cool! Good luck with your fast, looking forward to seeing any improvements in the dexa scan. When they benchmark optimal levels of lean mass, I wonder whether they're overemphasising the glucose sink effect of muscle.. Because like you suggest, strength is probably the most important metric overall. I'm sure I'd also be below their guidelines at 185cm and 73kg hehe..EDIT. I didn't realise you actually combined the before and after in one video. Awesom!

[ninoextendo]

Interesting, thanks for the experiment.

This does seem in line with other research indicating that any muscle lost is quickly regained after refeeding while fat loss is more permanent.

Ignoring costs and effort required I would have loved to see more scans at different points of the process.

More research is required to replicate these findings consistently and to define the outer limits of the method. Interesting data nonetheless and I appreciate the take away to be so unbiased!

[connietee]

Most people doing intermittent fasting do 16:8 fast. What does the research say about this?

[onzbrau]

good content bro, but would be easier to watch if you improved your english, the thick accent is difficult listen to

[toms]

he talks about fasting over time in years. you did just one 7 days water fast, what happens to your body if you do it often and for many years.

[ori-yn]

Are you sure this was a DEXA scan ?? 😂
15 pull ups is really good .
I’m no expert but I would have guessed you are around 15% max body fat.
Of course it doesn’t tell much about strength and body fat correlation.
Very interesting as well comparison dexa and household scale .
I lost a lot of strength and muscle during low calorie phases .

[marioaddad]

The second dexa scan is almost a month after the first one, and not after a 7 days water fast. This ruined the credibility of your experiment and i just wasted 24 minutes.