muscle gain during atkins?

[rayard singh]

my chemistry is a bit rusty, please correct me- when we switch from glucosis to ketosis, isnt it very hard to add lean muscle mass/
Yes? no?
please shed some light someone, i am on induction 15 days and trying to add some muscle while loosing the fat.
thanks everyone
rayard

[2big4mysize]

Re: muscle gain during atkins?

actually it is very easy to add muscle mass on Atkins because we are eating 30% of our total calories in the form of proteins. this isn't the way bodybuilders do a ketogenic diet so don't get confused by their misinformation posts about Atkins and eatting your muscle tissues. the human body stores as much protein as it can in organs and muscle tissues for use in repair and growth so you got lots of free pool amino acids to build with. the excess is converted to sugar in the liver for storage.

Volk at UConn did a study on nonexercising fellows eating atkins not to lose weight just to eat it and used a USDA diet eating group as the control group. the Atkins folk even though they were eating all they wanted lost body fat and using a specail measureing xray machine actually added muscle tissue to their bodies even though the total effect was losing about 4 pounds over 6 weeks time. the control group didn't add any new muscle tissues. The Vet hospital in Philly has a published study that dispite what the docs thought would happen to thier overweight patients doing Atkins and exercisng they lost weigh and added muscle tissue too. the ones overweight not eating Atkins and exercising didn't add any muscle tissue and infact lost muscle tissue dispite exercising.

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[rayard singh]

Re: muscle gain during atkins?

thanks alot for the info(sheesh....to think that i'm a food technologist by training and profession)