Dr. Rhonda Patrick

Yes.

Right.

I think there's now been many, many studies that have done that have found that people naturally doing time-restricted eating in their free-living conditions on average reduce their calorie intake by about 200 calories per day.

And that's just natural because people don't snack or they don't eat that dessert because they are trying to restrict their meals into a shorter time period.

But, and I think you've even shown this in other studies, many studies have shown, while if you do keep calories the same, you will not lose fat-free mass and weight, right?

Then the glucose homeostasis is still improved by not eating carbs.

in a huge, you know, like by restricting your time eating window shorter to let's say eight hours, you know, in some cases 10, but mostly eight, even shorter than that six hours.

So there are people also that are very interested in their glucose homeostasis that, you know, want to eat within a shorter time window as well.

But the question then goes is, well, if they're skipping meals or skipping snacks, then they're potentially skipping protein intake, right?

If someone is doing the time-restricted eating schedule where they're eating within an eight-hour window, then they really do need to make sure they're not losing their protein, correct?

So let me rephrase my question.

For someone who is doing time-restricted eating in an eight-hour window, fasting for 16 hours, and they're engaged in resistance training at least three times a week minimum, and they're taking in their protein, they're not missing their protein.

Yes.

Can they gain muscle mass?

Can they gain it?

I have a question.

So we were talking about protein distribution and perhaps it being beneficial to more evenly distribute protein.

protein.

But how does physical activity, because you said physical activity sensitizes, I mean, you said it sensitizes muscle to amino acids.

How does that, does that change whether, I mean, you would think that in the background of someone who's physically active, does all these other little differences matter?