Dr. Rhonda Patrick

So I'd love to get your take on training while fasted.

What if someone says, I'm interested in fat adaptation, I'm interested in mitochondrial health, and I'm not an endurance athlete.

I'm just, you know, these are my recovery days.

I do strength training on other days.

These are my recovery days, so to speak, right, in a way.

Then would you still kind of – what are your thoughts on that?

So you mentioned mito adaptations aren't – it's a subtle difference.

But what about lipolysis?

Like what about, you know – Yeah.

What about people that are doing strength training, resistance training first thing in the morning, and they don't have a lot of time.

They're getting their kids ready for school, and it's like they want to feel with something.

Like what's the best option?

Yeah, I think athletes are less interested in that, and people that are more interested in body recomposition, they're wanting to lose fat, gain muscle, are more interested in, okay, well, perhaps that kind of person, that their liver glycogen takes more hours before it depletes.

And then it's like, well, if I then eat before my run, then I didn't fully deplete the liver glycogen, and so they're not going to be perhaps –

undergoing lipolysis and oxidizing fatty acids for energy.

So what about people that are interested in, that are fit and they're not really athletes, but they're exercisers and they're interested in just sort of fat loss, body recomposition?

What about people that are doing time-restricted eating?

And the worry of time-restricted eating would be losing muscle, perhaps, if you're not getting in your protein intake or resistance training.

What are your thoughts there?

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