• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
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    Uhm, no, it builds first fat, needs fat as an “ingredient” to build muscles (makes no sense to build all that muscle if you barely have enough energy to survive). Then burns preferably muscles. Fat is hard to convert, protein (muscle) is easily accessible (bodybuilders take protein as supplement). You need excercise and not just starving to lose weight, no?

    And btw, even just keeping muscles needs more energy. Fat not.

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      needs fat as an “ingredient” to build muscles

      No, muscle protein synthesis needs amino-acids. Fat is not used to build muscle

      Then burns preferably muscles

      No

      Fat is hard to convert

      Not nearly as hard as it is for the body to atrophy muscle mass, turn the proteins into amino-acids, and turn those amino-acids into glucose and then ATP

      protein (muscle) is easily accessible (bodybuilders take protein as supplement)

      It isn’t, and the digestion of whey protein supplements can not be compared to muscle atrophy

      You need excercise and not just starving to lose weight, no?

      At this point I’m sure you’re just trolling, because that couldn’t be further from the truth

      And btw, even just keeping muscles needs more energy

      True

      Fat not

      Keeping fat cells also uses energy, just not nearly as much as muscle mass

      If you wanna know my credibility on this topic I would suggest a look at my profile picture