#290: Menno Henselmans & Eric Helms, PhD - Diet Breaks, Calorie Cycling & Muscle Retention
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Intermittent Fasting and Muscle Protein Balance
I would never recommend complete fasting so as low as I do is like protein sparing modified fast which means protein intake remains high and all essential nutrient intakes are covered. My estimate of minimum sustainable energy intake on rest days like I'm not really rest day but way outside the anabolic window it is like 1500 calories. So that in itself with some practical leeway of you know you main dieting and sustainability basically puts the low end at 9.7 calories per day. But both those kind of study designs you mentioned were kind of two things that actually I think we could get into in this conversation or at least similar things.
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