Dr. Andrew Huberman

Can somebody gain muscle while losing fat, either by training while in a caloric maintenance or deficit phase?

They don't like bulking, man.

I...

You don't have to.

I think I've done it once or twice many years ago.

I don't like feeling weighed down with all that extra food and your digestion.

You're constantly eating or going to the bathroom.

It makes you sleepy.

I think...

maintenance plus a couple hundred extra calories with... Mini bulks, mini cuts.

I'll just add to that because I can't resist.

When people bulk, their skin gets really bad.

They get acne and all sorts of stuff.

Dr. Kyle Gillette, he's an MD who's been a guest on this podcast, clarified a lot of things for me and I think a lot of other people when he said, people that are carrying excess body fat, when they...

reduce the amount of fat they're carrying, their hormone profiles improve.

People who are already really lean, if they go really sub maintenance calories, their hormones tend to suffer.

This is true for women.

They sometimes will stop having periods.

but also for men, their testosterone will drop if they're eating too few calories.

But men who are carrying too much body fat, who lose body fat, their testosterone increases.