Dr. Andy Galpin

What about the person who's trying to gain muscle?

If I do 16-8, what's actually happening here?

And because of the way that I operate, I don't care about just a molecular mechanism.

I don't care just about body composition.

I wanted to ask questions about sleep, about personal preference, about digestion, about how hard the diet was, how likely are you to do it, physical performance.

Because when you go into the real world, that's how you make decisions, right?

I want to be able to tell people, hey, this 16-8, maybe it is better for body composition, but it's harder to follow, right?

Or it makes your sleep worse.

Or it's better for everything.

Whatever combination the answer is going to be, I don't really care.

But that's the full context people have when they make dietary decisions.

So that's what we did.

We took people that were very well-trained.

And we did eight weeks of strength training with them in the lab, supervised all that already, again, previously well-trained men and women, college age as normal.

We did biopsies.

We did muscle imaging.

We did questionnaires.

We did sleep stuff.

We did blood.

We did a bunch of different things.