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Ep. #1084: Martin MacDonald on the Science of “Aggressive” Dieting

Muscle for Life with Mike Matthews

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The Benefits of a Low Calorie Diet

I have an aggressive dieting calculator that helps people talk about the real numbers. It doesn't take you into those 400 500 calorie run because almost everyone will lose muscle doing it that way and most people are really well if I can diet for just one two three or four weeks and not lose any muscle. The key thing being is I actually wasn't hungry but yeah most people wanting to retain muscle mass so I mean you could argue that any muscle that you might have lost in two weeks you're gonna regain in what a week of training you know. We understand that there are potentially some decent appetites suppressing elements of that with very low calorie diets such as nutritional ketosis.

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