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<blockquote data-quote="bulkbiker" data-source="post: 1909689" data-attributes="member: 219467"><p>The body will only turn to muscle after it has "eaten" its way through the fat stores.. I think a 20 stone man has something like 400,000 calories of fat stored.. a regular fit person has something like 40,000 so a 7 day fast should be fine unless you are very skinny already. (can't remember where those figures came from.. someone at the PHC conference I think).</p><p>7 days are not recommended really unless you are very aware of what you are doing and certainly no more than a few times a year. But as we know Angus Barbieri went from 207 kg to 82 kg with his 382 day medically supervised fast.. </p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.diabetes.co.uk/blog/2018/02/story-angus-barbieri-went-382-days-without-eating/" target="_blank">https://www.diabetes.co.uk/blog/2018/02/story-angus-barbieri-went-382-days-without-eating/</a></p><p></p><p>Edit to add.. there may be a little lean body mass lost on the fast (which is why Prof Phinney is so anti them..) however a number of people have pointed out this could be because that LBM is being recycled through autophagy and once the fast is over levels recover pretty quickly providing enough protein is eaten.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bulkbiker, post: 1909689, member: 219467"] The body will only turn to muscle after it has "eaten" its way through the fat stores.. I think a 20 stone man has something like 400,000 calories of fat stored.. a regular fit person has something like 40,000 so a 7 day fast should be fine unless you are very skinny already. (can't remember where those figures came from.. someone at the PHC conference I think). 7 days are not recommended really unless you are very aware of what you are doing and certainly no more than a few times a year. But as we know Angus Barbieri went from 207 kg to 82 kg with his 382 day medically supervised fast.. [URL]https://www.diabetes.co.uk/blog/2018/02/story-angus-barbieri-went-382-days-without-eating/[/URL] Edit to add.. there may be a little lean body mass lost on the fast (which is why Prof Phinney is so anti them..) however a number of people have pointed out this could be because that LBM is being recycled through autophagy and once the fast is over levels recover pretty quickly providing enough protein is eaten. [/QUOTE]
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