Does Gaining Muscle Really BOOST Your Metabolism?

[@SirJodi]

You do recommend lenghtened partials for maximum liver growth, don't you?

[@TheKiltedGerman]

Fascinating information. Took me a moment to realize that BMR is not total calories burned in a day. My first thought was, "that's way too low." Then it started to make sense when I remembered the "basal" part.

[@DILFDylF]

This is why I had that 2nd liver implanted.

[@Miksa156]

Bro, I have 3 kidneys 😂

[@Oi-mj6dv]

@@DILFDylF space marine detected

[@proteinpapi7595]

How about when you move around? You were only talking about bmr, how about the extra calories you burn from walking, cooking, etc. (NEAT)

[@flexlikeag]

I have had great success with macrofactor and look forward to myoadapt.

[@stoempert]

So both increasing muscle and rigourous cardio will enlarge your organs thus leading to increased BMR. People might not know the exact mechanics but saying increasing muscle elevates BMR is not wrong. Or generally, be in better shape increases BMR. *Macro factor add detected*

[@wallygrandpa]

This is something i didn't know, thank you

[@valentinocozzi]

Holy cow, YOU ARE RIGHT

[@Reewnat]

This is interesting, but it would have been more interesting and relevant if they measured the same person as they went from lean or with more fat vs that same person's metabolism with more muscle.

[@ts5284]

My thoughts exactly! To me that would have been the whole point

[@jonpageable]

This is what I thought. I’ve been using my Apple Watch to track net energy and it’s been pretty accurate in terms of my weight correlating to net energy intake over time. My BMR creeps up slowly with weight. Obviously having muscle mass comes with a load of health benefits but the most effective way of easily burning calories is to increase NEAT

[@KanarisTwitch]

Anyone know what the song is playing at the end? My song detection extension couldn't get it

[@SuperiorAutocraft]

Was not expecting to see some of my favorite sumo rikishi, but a nice surprise.

[@dczech4138]

So organs grow to adapt to muscle mass or to activity level?

[@jimdavis5017]

Im glad brain hypertrophy is minimal, considering it sits in my skull 💀!!

[@TheOne23_]

But skull hypertrophy 🤷‍♂️

[@DustPunk]

I've heard a lot of people discuss this topic, and while there's good info here and still more to be said, I've always approached the muscle vs fat discussion from a different angle. Let's say I'm 180 based on my current activity and diet habits, and have about 30 pounds of body fat. Assuming I bulj and build 25 pounds of muscle, and cut back down to 180, would I not be able to maintain my calorie intake and stay at that weight, with my new body fat percentage, assuming I keep exercising? Perhaps wishful thinking that I can stay in good shape long term without a cut diet, and tens of pounds of muscle is no small order I know, but I like to think one day I'll be able to eat a bit more and stay relatively lean.

[@fedormusiyenko7028]

Great video! Btw where did you get that shirt? I want one! 😅

[@Oi-mj6dv]

Yes muscle might not be as active as brain cells per kg but you have so much of it it ends up being 23% on the chart. Growing more will obviously increase your BMR, lol

[@jamesgazeley]

If your BMR was 2500 and you gained 10kg of muscle your new BMR is 2650. Enjoy the extra one slice of bread.

[@nukesploder]

@@jamesgazeley over a week or a month though that's a lot.

[@danielbrown001]

@@jamesgazeleyAnd if you keep going over an entire lifting career and gain 20-25kg then you go from 2500 to around 3000. That’s absolutely massive. And before you say that’s impossible, there are PLENTY of natural skinny guys who start off weighing around 140lbs lean and end up weighing 185-190lbs lean after a decade of serious training.

[@alanhogg7831]

​@@jamesgazeley so, per KG of muscle it's roughly 26.5 calories per day, or just over 1 extra calorie per hour? Ya, even the comments below are missing the cost to benefit ratio there.

[@s98715]

@@nukesploder it's not really that much

[@Bodyhaqs]

What do the values in the Macrofactor BMR represent?

[@deboraharnaut989]

Very interesting! Can’t wait for the podcast episode expanding on this 😁💪

[@mr.t7431]

Do we know if any of the athletes in these studies we are also on PED’s? Where they tested?

[@overtonpendulum2071]

7:54 Where does this equation factor in my FFMI?

[@Yupppi]

How about using growth hormone increases organ size? Although since it was conducted in Japan, there's a higher likelihood of them not using PEDs. But do researchers check for the potential of PEDs in athletes when they are studied? If this is true for basically everyone, I would make a guess that the higher demands on body's processes requires growth of the organs to have a bigger capacity for cycling stuff in and out. But I'll leave it to the smarter people to figure out. I wonder if this is also found in populations like very active jobs or like military people.

[@s98715]

Couldn't the larger organs in athletes in these studies be due to steroids?

[@Snerdles]

Why would you ever care about BMR per unit of FFM? This is like saying if you make 30 bucks an hour there is no point to getting a part time job to make more money because at 15 bucks an hour your per hour rate actually goes down overall... That doesn't make sense to care about in any context.

[@johndoiron9615]

So, are the organs growing to adapt to the muscle growth?

[@riccardodiluca6862]

Makes sense. also a bigger heart, will produce more power that you need for other activities that are not lifting weights

[@alex10291]

I thought I was on his Chanel haha

[@AppendixVermiformis]

WeLl AcTuAlLy 🤓👆 Energy expenditure increase in people that gain muscle is mainly due to people doing the things that lead to gaining muscle e.g. WE GO JYM

[@stluciestrength]

This didn’t answer the question of resistance training (weight lifting, body weight) vs aerobic training ( running, swimming) for fat loss

[@alastaircrosby9682]

Watch another video then?

[@taylorhillard4868]

So basically what you're saying is that i'll never be able to eat pasta again, even if i get jacked......😢

[@zakkg]

Interesting stuff. Thanks for the video. I believe there is an error in what you say at 4:44 - "Athletes that carried 50% more FFM also had hearts, livers and kidneys that were around 50% larger". The trend in the data is linear, but not proportional.

[@user-ii7xc1ry3x]

He probably only meant the liver

[@zakkg]

Ignore me, he's right. The linear relationships for the liver, kidneys and heart shown here are very close to proportional, because the y-intercepts (e.g. -0.058 for the liver) are so small. They'd be truly proportional if the y-intercepts were zero. The brain is different because the amount its mass increases by, along with FFM, is a minor contribution to its overall mass - because the y-intercept of 1087 g brain mass is not greatly affected when adding 0.5 g brain mass for every 1 kg FFM. 🤷 I'd best practice more stats

[@TheHybrid350]

Great

[@Nick-kf3io]

Someone give a tl;dr? I'm dumb

[@sarasmr4278]

Metabolism is very complicated, but building muscle is very good for you :)

[@Nick-kf3io]

Yay! (Jumps up in excitement but smacks head on wall and falls down)

[@sarasmr4278]

@Nick-kf3io you've been working on those box jumps, huh, buddy? That's awesome height! Let's try saving them for the gym though. 💜

[@Nick-kf3io]

🤣🤣🤣

[@pretty_flaco]

This is a macro factor commercial

[@riccardodiluca6862]

By this formula, my BMR is almost 1700cals but I always cut below that (successfully) to around 10-11% bf. Isn't BMR supposedly the ammount of calories you need to eat just to be healthy? Oh and I forgot to say I'm totally healthy 😅

[@MichaelSmith-fg8xh]

BMR is the energy you'd use doing nothing (not so much as tapping your foot). My typical exercise is 20-40% of that energy on top of that.

[@caitzs]

It's fine to diet at a calorie level below your BMR. If you keep doing that until you starve to death, that's a problem, but while you still have fat to lose it's fine.

[@TorBoy9]

That was a surprising result. So growing muscle does not largely affect metabolism, but growing organs does!

[@382u3uuej]

So if I grow my sex organ I can get lean more quickly? Dr. Milo needs to do a video on how to achieve phallic hypertrophy.

[@shaunfishman1244]

@@382u3uuejhe only goes with science based evidence.....it would be a short episode.

[@Darknight526]

@@382u3uuej It's already made, there are channels and subreddits dedicated to that lol.

[@spacetime3]

Right got it so GH it is then

[@anteep4900]

nah barely, extra muscle mass just sitting by itself will only boost energy needs at rest by almost unnociteable ammounts

[@Snerdles]

It's been measured as about 6-8 calories per pound per day. That's hardly nothing. 15lbs of muscle, assuming you are not completely sedentary and actually move throughout the year, burning an extra 150 calories a day is 54750 calories a year. That's 342 zebra cakes for effectively "free" just by building muscles.

[@anteep4900]

@@Snerdles I see your point of view. I guess it's a matter of perception, for me it's hardly something!

[@kamranhussain3159]

Organs growing huh? Thats not what i expected at all lol

[@wallygrandpa]

So, whats your liver press

[@kamranhussain3159]

@@wallygrandpa 2 bottles of whiskey to failure

[@AppendixVermiformis]

**organs** 😼

[@KasumovMedia]

✏️ vs 🐎

[@g0aky]

aww yee

[@gimmedatjunk]

Cool, so we should stop wasting time growing muscles and focus on just growing our organs instead.

[@ashleydawson4057]

Organ hypertrophy sounds bad for your health 😵‍💫

[@Azmodon]

being an outlier sucks, probably need a physical lol, your calc says I should have a BMR of 2763, been on an 1800-2000 diet for 6 months, dropped 20 pounds in the first 2 and have leveled off at 245-250lbs (FFM ~80-85) (now 21 pounds behind what I should be by that equation). At 2600-2800 I level off around 270lbs

[@sarasmr4278]

You may have dropped too low. Consider refeeding at maintenance for a few weeks and then a ~200 calorie deficit. Got me out of a plateau and omg I have energy again!

[@weich1q2w]

Of course it does

[@Unimpaired]

This video is false. Having more muscle does contribute to more energy expenditure and if that is not accounted for while calculating macros, you eventually enter into deficit thus losing fat.

[@Volvopeek]

Watch out, this guy's plug-game is tight. Stay safe, kids.

[@gokukakarot1855]

For the algorithm

[@xkidmidnightx]

Why do you look like you don’t lift in your shirts?

[@LucidStrike]

Shirt too large 🤷🏿‍♂️

[@niggagaming4335]

Sleeper build

[@erome3619]

This guy is running out of ideas, Making random videos on random topics. This makes no sense to me.

[@Dtaysh]

No. Not enough to make a video about. Next subject.

[@Vincent-z3n]

Science says: You should not adjust calories with exercise and therefore should not eat more when you exercise more (since you'll burn less in your body's stress response such as inflammation). Because of this, I don't recommend Macrofactor or other calorie-tracking apps. It is still incredibly healthy (estimated 38% lower mortality rates for long-term physical activity), but not a tool for weight loss or a consideration in the amount of food you eat.

[@stoempert]

@@Vincent-z3n Adjusting your caloric intake according to your goals and activities is paramount. If you take in 1.800 kcals being totally inactive and overweight, you might need to increase calories if you start seriously exercising. It's about the long-haul steady changes. Crash dieting is just waiting for your body to return to that unhealthy equilibrium.

[@scottrogers1493]

You are assuming everybody's goal for fitness is weight loss. If your fitness plan is intended for function, you absolutely need to scale calories per activity

[@itsasecret2298]

"Science" does not say that. You are wrong.

[@jammydodgerthefirst]

All I can say is my cutting and bulking has become significantly more efficient since using MF. It works extremely well as a tool for weight loss, I literally put in my goal and follow what it says and I've always achieved the goal. What more can you expect from a tool?

[@erome3619]

You’re just to lazy to count and keep track