hey guys so in this video I'm going to be answering the question does
intermittent fasting increase or decrease testosterone so intamin fasting
is basically eating for a certain period of the day and fasting or not eating for
another period of the day and how long you do this depends on what kind of
intimate and fasting schedule you're doing now there are a lot of potential
benefits of intamin fasting but the primary reason why people do it is for
fat loss for the simple fact that it's much more difficult to overeat when
you're eating less frequent meals during the day now if you type in intimate
fasting and testosterone on google there are a ton of articles and videos with
varying opinions on whether intamin fasting actually increases testosterone
and the farm majority of these articles and claims say that intimate bossing
boosts and increases testosterone but I'm here to tell you that based on the
best evidence we currently have today this is actually incorrect so if we look
at one study it was done over eight weeks
it used resistance trained males and it compared to groups they were both
consuming the same amount of food doing the same workouts so the only variable
which was changed was one group was doing enzmann fasting and the other one
wasn't so what they found by the end of the study is that the group who were
doing intimate fasting for days per week had lower testosterone levels
significantly lower testosterone levels and higher cortisol levels so based on
this study and we don't really have any other ones as good testosterone seems to
decrease with people doing in Xiamen fossum at least resistance train males
and a calorie deficit now the good news for all of you that are doing intamin
fasting because I know a lot of you are including myself is that body
composition was the same between both groups that means both groups maintain
the same amount of muscle they lost the same amount of fat their performance in
the gym wasn't statistically significantly different so
overall what matters which is your results was the same so what this
basically means is that intimate fasting may decrease your testosterone slightly
but since you're getting the same results it doesn't really matter you
know it's not the biggest deal in the world so it's it's nothing to overthink
and your decision as to whether you do intimate fasting shouldn't be based on
whether it increases or decreases your testosterone but rather it should be
based on whether intimate fasting allows you to live the healthiest lifestyle
consistently and sustainably because that's gonna be the most important thing
when you think about your goals and what you want to achieve long-term so many of
the articles out there that say that enzmann fasting increase testosterone
will use flawed logic for example many people will know that of the study which
showed that short-term intamin fasting increase growth hormone by 2,000 percent
so many people will say intimate fasting increases growth hormone by two thousand
percent therefore it's better for building muscle and losing fat growth
hormone also has a positive relationship with testosterone meaning when growth
hormone levels are high testosterone tends to be high so what people will do
is take the evidence that shows that growth hormone increases when people
fast and say that testosterone levels must be higher when you fast because of
this but this is making a big assumption because you're not basing it on a study
which actually looked at testosterone levels like the eight-week study on the
resistance trained males if you think about intermittent fasting from an
evolutionary perspective it makes sense that intamin fasting wouldn't increase
testosterone if there's a scarcity of food then the last thing you want to be
doing your body wants to be doing is procreating because if there's a
scarcity of food that means the chances of survival for yourself and your
offspring is going to be decreased so the last thing your body wants to do
there's gonna be two procreate with a deficit in energy when you eat a ton of
food your testosterone goes up it's a stress on the body intermittent fasting
will increase cortisol now there are many things that increase cortisol like
coffee like doing a heavy deadlift and these things aren't necessarily bad you
know what's bad is chronically elevated cortisol so acutely elevated cortisol
small doses of strength like exercise or fasting that can be good it's a whole
netic stress because your body is going to adapt to that stress and become
stronger because of it long-term stresses are bad so although intamin
fasting may increased cortisol it's not necessarily a bad thing because of that
because it's a positive stress on the body your body's gonna get stronger
because of it like I alluded to before there are definitely some limitations to
the study such as the length of the study also we have to consider the fact
that there were in a calorie deficit if they were consuming more food perhaps
the results would be different but I think it's incorrect and dishonest to
say that intamin fasting increases testosterone when the best study
available we have shows the opposite something else to consider is the fact
that some studies have shown that in spend fasting increases androgen
insensitivity so basically what this means is that your androgen receptors
are more sensitive to testosterone and this means that you can get more out of
less testosterone so the decrease in testosterone may not even be that
significant because you're able to get more out of less your body's more
efficient at using it so that's something to consider as well but
definitely more research needs to be done on this but what is clear is that
you can do intermittent fasting you don't have to do intermittent fasting
that's based on your preferences because most of your results are simply going to
come from the total amount of food you eat the type of foods you're eating and
honestly what you can just do on a consistent basis that's what's going to
get you the results all right guys as always thank you so much for watching
and I'll see you guys in the next video if you
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alright guys so as always I'll see you in the next video and thank you so much
for watching peace out
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