Fasting Builds Muscle? | What the Fitness | Biolayne

Fasting reduces MPS:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2221049/
Feeding before exercises increases MPS: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22617...
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Facts

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Just need a group. It’s pretty much my Friday happy hour. 😂

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😂

[@ThingsYoudontwanttohear]

Eating shirts builds muscle

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More than fasting... 😀

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Shirts have trenbologne. Not natty confirmed!

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And vaginas

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So long as it fits your macros

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This is awesome, my parents are only in their 50s and I struggle to talk reason into them. They would rather believe random Facebook posts than credible individuals and organizations including KZbinrs like Layne Norton, Dr. Mike Varshavski, and Dr. Mike Israetel

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[@naturalforlife6741]

Sleeping builds muscle.

[@randyallin996]

Food builds muscle

[@Simon-talks]

and fat and lethargy

[@Klaudiuszeg]

Training build muscle, you could build it at as low as 0.7 g per kg body weight

[@geminierica4077]

Love how this comment has to be made lol

[@Simon-talks]

You should just try and sit on the couch, do nothing else and just eat lots of “food” and just see if that builds lots of muscle for ya.

[@randyallin996]

@@Simon-talks why would I do that?

[@samaviapatelsousa4170]

Honestly need someone like biolayne in my life… humor, smart , has common sense and into healthy sustainable lifestyle Why aren’t there more men like this

[@stasonar]

Hi! The same problem for men 😊 Where are you from?

[@twindrags1]

Gotta love these people thinking "everything happens instantly", when the body works in days, weeks, even month-long processes 😂

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You gotta live in the now bro ♥️😂

[@tylerlynn8225]

Honestly love your content

[@maria16194]

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[@cheliospanama9786]

Great Video! Thank you 🔥👏💪🫶

[@bobbyventon5015]

Coming up next - sitting on the couch builds more muscle than exercising.

[@bobdog90]

If you SAVE the GLYCOGEN by NOT doing a WORKOUT then you OBVIOUSLY will be able to USE it to bUiLd MuScLe

[@dominikgrah5875]

Wasn't that already? I remember that someone claimed, that sitting on the couch and thinking about exercising builds muscle...

[@stellasternchen]

It‘s not working for me. I do a daily session. Maybe I‘m sitting wrong? And should it be fasted or while eating snacks?

[@moaf2padventures757]

my favorite part is 0:49. my guy is just so enthralled listening to homeboy talk. if you look closely you can actually see his mind exploding.

[@kasialebek6256]

Good job!!

[@MachineBuilt]

Your videos are changing my life

[@TheBswan]

Commenting for the algorithm builds muscle

[@philliponfitness]

keep them coming layne 😂😂

[@joerockhead7246]

thank you

[@staceyg1719]

Loved this video 😂

[@Enthalpy248]

We are always burning fat. So sick of the you must deplete glycogen to burn fat. And how about maintaining a positive N2 balance to build muscle.

[@bobdog90]

Take the glycogen OUT of the muscle so the muscle can then USE the sugar that used to be inside of it........?

[@PSA78]

Yeah, that one had me cringing badly. 😂

[@Melesniannon]

Man, don't you know, this is fasted workout, you only burn fat, so you need to take out the sugar so you can put fat into the muscle and that's when you get anabolic!

[@rgh622]

Commenting on this one for the Afro Rhythm...........

[@thedeadman8361]

Ive heard not lifting weights builds muscle to.

[@truthbetold8233]

To what?

[@onika700]

You should make a high school series for health classes.

[@espenstoro]

Let us know if the shirt is anabolic.

[@mcfarvo]

Day 37 of the true fast and I am now up 5kg muscle mass, PR on most lifts by 3-5%, so I just need to not eat for long enough and I'll be Ronnie Coleman with the strength of Brian Shaw

[@mcfarvo]

Just kidding ofc

[@madhisathya2766]

Haha, got me at first.

[@DJGURL]

I was waiting for you to speak on him lol. I peeped he was a pharmacist a while ago 🤔

[@user-hs7ck6zh9x]

Hi Dr. Layne, I would love to get your perspective on EAAs... do they build more muscle than whey protein alone and whole food proteins, assuming I'm already getting optimal levels of total protein throughout the day? Does the answer change based on age, for a person in their 50s, 60s, or 70s?

[@Torviticus]

I heard fasting boosts your mana stores and adds a +1 modifier to your spells.

[@why_not_both]

Hahaha

[@Corkfish1]

I tried a three day fast and I looked and felt horrible. I'll never do it again.

[@Klaudiuszeg]

You experienced keto flu when you ran out of glucose.

[@espenstoro]

@@Klaudiuszeg Which is not a good thing.

[@musashi542]

​@@espenstorosays who

[@C0d0ps]

@@musashi542 Keto isn’t a good thing. Fad diet, won’t last 100 years.

[@mcfarvo]

I did a Mon-Fri extended fast once and it was not fun, but not too bad. I only did it to experience it. I doubt I'll find any good reason to do such a fast again.

[@fernandaalario5091]

I love that ALL videos start with a “it’s been proved that ….”

[@spakchitown]

Spittaked at the eaten shirt. For the first time in many decades of life, I’ve finally seen someone eat their shirt, and aggressively at that!

[@nitishkumarjurel241]

So within what time window of eating should I workout?

[@kestag2110]

Eat right, exercise right, sleep right- includes things you enjoy and you’ll be right ❤

[@jonathancollins22]

Hey Layne another KZbin doctor said not to calculate TEF when planning macros (including protein) because it's already taken into account by researchers. After doing some digging, I learned about gross energy (GE) vs metabolizable energy (ME) in food calorimetry. is this different than TEF? Is 4.0 kcal/g an accurate way to calculate protein macros? Or should it be more like 3.5 kcal/g using corrected Atwater calculations?

[@mywellnessfriend]

How do I log shirt in my Carbon app?

[@erwin757]

Would the shirt builds muscle and what are the macro’s of a shirt 🤔

[@jasons5957]

What's the role of increased growth hormone during fasting in muscle synthesis?

[@greensmoothieparty]

Is it better to work out a couple of hours after eating? What do the RCT's say?

[@Nekrokon]

So I did it 17 days. Here are the results: I've done it 2018 for 25 Days (without much bodydata). And 2024 for 17 days (with bodydata). 185cm, 129kg, 36% bodyfat, 47kg musclemass. After the waterfast of 17 days: 185cm, 115kg, 31% bodyfat, 48kg musclemass. (I gained musclemass?!) I trained 4 times a week, still as hard as I could. After the fast I ate a lots of carbs and took creatine. I went 7kg's up (what's totally fine, cause, it's water und food in the body). So, from 129kg to 122kg in total. You have to be mentally very stable to get through this. I thought about food all the time... But the health benefits are insane. My hunger is much more under control then I would've expected, still after this, after my refeed. My advice, start a month low-carb, then a month keto, then intermittent fasting. Or else the "keto-flue" will be very hard. The jump from having carbs to nothing makes you feel bad. Learn healthy habits to get back to, after the fast. Your body wants to shut down, get lazy. Move as much as you can. Train, to give the muscles the signals to keep them. You will get cold. But the fact that I haven't lost musclemass was the most surprising thing. (You will get a bit weaker maybe tho.)

[@cysecgnz]

"ooooohhhhh.....wooooooow." lol. I absolutly love Layne's sarcasm.

[@supimsatan]

Building muscle builds muscle.

[@NofirstnameNolastname]

I prefer my shirts medium rare.

[@GayBearBro2]

For the algorithm!

[@Allisonfahrenbach]

This was hilarious 😂

[@VernCrisler]

Just to add from my experience. I would agree that fasting and building muscles may go together -- but only up to a point. I'm on a GLP-1 / GIP drug, and I lost a lot of weight while still building muscle. But as with anything there's a point of diminishing returns. I lost so much weight, my body began to rob from my muscles to sustain itself. I started looking bony and thin-muscled. So, I'm in a bulking phase right now and looking healthy again. In sum, building muscles while fasting or losing weight may work in the short term, but not in the long term.

[@SaintCityRunner]

Are there human randomised control trials on the effects of eating a shirt before working out?

[@user-nw8on6jr7c]

Lmfao, i love layne so much

[@lexlibovych4584]

Since i decided to stop eating and only living by sun and oxygen my phisique improved a lot. Im Baki now

[@koscisty6mariusz6]

You should record that "HUMAN RANDOMIZED CONTROL TRIALS" so you don't have to scream it every time and just use it when needed :D

[@tsebosei1285]

1:31 he is a pharmacist

[@Velethar1337]

we want to see your shirt's condition after this video Layne!

[@donwinston]

💪🏽 For the algorithm

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I found this great guy through the overrated workout video with Jeff Nippard, now I have stayed for the great energy and science debunking of BS that keeps getting spread. Subscribed!

[@ditz3nfitness]

It's like people disable their brains whenever they go on TikTok...

[@cyrilduru5834]

He is also a pharmacist

[@thelastsigmamale]

🗣️ For the algorithm! 🗣️

[@melvingriggs7937]

do you have any say a on the advertisers that come on before your presentations.the latest one I have seen is David Lewis who can now cure all vision problems with no surgery with just some type of drink

[@Dandeeman26]

Hay Layne if I eat my shirt will I be able to lift like you?

[@Dogoodthings314]

The world is now full of expertless experts...and I am expert on that.

[@12496k]

🎯

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😂😂😂nice work man

[@lutherlessor4029]

I'm a math teacher and eat breakfast right after a planet fitness workout 3-4 times a week with 2-3 sets of 4-5 exercises/workout/week and this gives me hope. Why on earth would people believe that restricting their intake would restrict their growth? (I ask that rhetorically, because I know there are idiots out in the internets).

[@ss4vegeta1]

lol at the intro 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@DelenaLearns]

What school of pharmacy? I dont know any pharmacists that are sketchy like this.

[@healthfadsfade]

I love how this random dude is going against EVERY physique competitor of all kinds ever. This one dude has THE SECRET 😂

[@marcdaniels9079]

Algo 😊

[@ahmedfhoussam5688]

Being muslim Means Knowing That Fasting is an extraordinary thing and its one of the five pillars in islam 😮❤

[@onika700]

He's just saying food in your stomach can't be used for energy until it's digested, so maybe it's better to eat after a workout, or an hour before.

[@jrauen6770]

I smell a new Paul Saladino McDonald’s video coming soon

[@alphacause]

I would love for this health guru to go to a construction site and tell the construction workers: "You know the best way to build this building is by refraining from obtaining materials". The construction workers would laugh at him or curse him out. That is essentially what you are doing when you are fasting. You are robbing the muscles of the very building blocks necessary to amass more muscle.

[@Simon-talks]

only in the human body, you supply the materials AFTER you create the ultimate stimulus from training, when it is needed to rebuild(not right before) lol, Try a better analogy next time

[@user-sd8bz2zr5j]

Ever since giving up FOOD i've been able to add so much lean muscle mass

[@erikhartley1690]

For the Algorithm for Leucine Layne

[@charlesball7852]

Cartwheels in the grave. Still has energy due to years of fasting since death

[@billleach7915]

Dr of Pharmacy does not equate to nutrition specialist. Stick to filling prescriptions. For the algorithm.

[@Simon-talks]

What’s a nutrition specialist?

[@huandrew3874]

Breathing builds muscle

[@williamwallaceg2627]

If you eat poop, is that like fasting? Because there’s actually nothing new coming into the system and that’s bound to double your muscle building, especially with all the probiotic! It’s true because my brain randomly came up with that stuff.

[@SiegelBantuBear]

Ohhh I love JESUS more. Never question his codex. Just Do It.

[@1ExplosionsHurt]

Algo

[@streetdogg8206]

This seems a bit besides the point?! I don't think he has anything against eating for anabolism, but in his mind this should probably be right after the workout. His point seems to be about how much energy is available for training if you're digesting at the same time. However, I'm also a bit confused about what his exact point is. It might be that you have more energy if your body puts its resources 100% to the training and doesn't divide it between training and digesting. Maybe you can achieve a better stimulus this way? I don't know, but it might be his point and I'm not sure if the studies mentioned here in this video address this specific point. But then he also says that you don't burn fat (from storage) if your body has food available from the ongoing digestion. Now I'm confused if this is about a more effective stimulus or if it is about fat burning?! That would make a lot less sense, I think.

[@emilycriswell9816]

Dr. Of Pharmacy 😂 I the love name and claim people.

[@Cloudkaos.]

Lol😂 i like this dude the more i see him 💪🏼

[@jessen00001]

Wow who would have thought of that ... not eating making the body put on muscle 😂😂 wtf ❤

[@manolopapas]

For the algorithm..

[@PeterPie.]

When will you respond to dr Chaffee debunking you?

[@TheSfajacks]

FTA!

[@melvingriggs7937]

research Dr. Melissa Newman fat fragmentation with chocolate for weight loss. Some guy uses her as reference and presents it on your channel

[@ditz3nfitness]

How would you create anything in this universe without resources? Exactly. Nothing just spawns from out of nowhere. Logic sense.

[@ditz3nfitness]

I hate social media because of this esact thing...

[@ericbailey9549]

I do my coffee enima in my ice bath because the coffee is too hot.

[@jmf420]

Fasting is catabolic though isn’t it?

[@geminierica4077]

Well yeah you're not getting in protein to create muscle protein synthesis.. you can workout fasted sure but you gotta eat right after. Some people do in the mornings if they workout really early.

[@turnerhice3356]

This one is so weird because it’s so easily disproven even anecdotally if you have no deep scientific knowledge. I remember an interview with Chris Hemsworth saying when he was training for Thor he’d eat every 3-4 hours, even waking up in the night to eat. That means that he’d basically NEVER be fasting. He was massive in that movie, so why didn’t his food consumption inhibit muscle growth? Well turns out it’s because there’s a direct correlation between calories consumed and muscle growth. 😂 Ppl are ridiculous

[@jacn202]

We don't even need to look at actors though when we can look at professional bodybuilders who literally eat nonstop throughout the day and are the biggest humans on earth. The fasting claims are utter nonsense.

[@j.rob.5943]

Algore

[@yercules]

Bro, you're still wearing your shirt. If Werner Herzog ate his shoe, you gotta eat your shirt!

[@profesprose]

You don’t eat, no worries, your body will break itself down until you die.

[@chrisbeerad8835]

righto i have data on this. been doin keto vore low carb what ever ya wanna call it. had bloods done as i feel it prudent. had elevated ck creatin kinase . now punters thats an enzyme produces from breaking down tissue. ! why from high rep squats on no carbs and a 14 hour fast. fasting especially in a defecit is catabolic not anabolic. it has its place but not of lean mass gains are your priority. PERIOD

[@robtravis6977]

Alg

[@juergenwscycling8820]

All those theatrics to admit at 3:16 that one can build muscles fasted.

[@madhisathya2766]

He never denied that. You could build muscle either fasted or not fasted, that's what he's trying to say. It would make no difference if I worked out fasted or fed, I will build the same amount of muscle according to my genes, provided I'm consuming 1g of protein per pound of BW and in a caloric surplus. Fasted workouts are not superior to fed workouts for building muscle.

[@oscarnoll448]

We need a HUMAN RANDOMIZED CONTROL TRIALS shirt I would pay 25 for that fs

[@mariushadar2795]

Breka is the best😅