Dr. Luc (Luke) van Loon

And so that amount of protein will help you reconditioning more efficiently.

That's the first answer to the question to your first question.

Now, the second was, is it of benefit on top of knowing that you'll have breakfast and lunch the next day?

So we also did that study.

We provided protein in the evening or we didn't provide protein in the evening and looked at the response to breakfast.

Now, response to breakfast in both conditions was exactly the same.

To my surprise, because I expected if you give a lot of protein the evening before, then the response to breakfast would be minimized.

But it wasn't.

It was exactly the same.

So it does give me some insight that at least in the first 24 hours, you have a greater benefit when you provide sufficient protein to maximize the reconditioning.

So based on the theory that you need an anabolic stimulus every every main meal in order to get the optimal 24 hour response, then you would actually have to conclude that intermittent fasting of time restricted feeding is not a good thing.

But we've done a study, a more longer-term study, Imre Kouw did that with labeled water.

And she did that in Melbourne, where I had a visiting professorship position there.

And we didn't see a difference in muscle protein synthesis with the time-restricted eating versus the non-time-restricted.

So it's possible the explanation is that if you have a period where there's less or there's no food intake, but you had a greater meal as the last one, that actually also had a greater response over a more prolonged period of time, just like the 100-gram study.

So it's possibly that that evens it out.

The other big question is, of course, why would you do time-restricted eating or intermittent fasting?

The other thing on that study was we didn't see differences, or that project, I should say, is we didn't see a difference in fat loss.

So, and I have a lot of people calling me and saying like, but the time-restricted eating, intermittent fasting really works for me.

Now, I did it myself as well, and it works really well.