Dr. Andy Galpin

We did muscle imaging.

We did questionnaires.

We did sleep stuff.

We did blood.

We did a bunch of different things.

And ultimately what we wanted to see was, okay, we're going to put them all at the same protein load and we're going to put them in caloric excess.

So hypercaloric, not hypocaloric.

We know the answer what happens with TRE if you're trying to lose weight.

What happens if somebody actively trying to gain muscle?

So that's the very unique twist of it.

And it was super interesting.

The take-home message was it didn't matter a ton.

As long as you hit your numbers, the results were basically the same across both groups, right?

So standard four, five, six feedings a day versus TRE.

Now we actually like doubled down on the question because we actually made the people train in the TRE group in the morning and then they had to wait at least an hour before they fueled afterwards.

So they trained, fasted, they didn't recover with protein or anything like that immediately afterwards and they stayed in that state until the afternoon, right?

So even despite of that, it didn't significantly compromise muscle growth or performance or really anything else.

We saw some subtle differences.

The TRE group actually looked like it didn't gain as much body fat because you're going to do that when you go hypochloric, right?

You're going to, especially if you're well-trained, you want to add muscle, you're going to bring some fat along for the route.