Fasting For Anabolic Fat Loss

by Elliott Hulse
co-author Lean Hybrid Muscle Reloaded <-- Over 50% Off Link

We've pointed out that hormones are the 'traffic cops' that direct
the activities and responses that manage the body's metabolic
systems. We can have an impact on the way that hormones manage
traffic in our body by manipulating factors such as diet, activity
levels, weight training, sleeping, resting, managing stress levels and
others.

Influencing the hormonal traffic cops provides a measure of control
over the operation of our metabolic systems. One particularly strong
influence we can have is on how our hormonal traffic cops partition
the energy our bodies use.

When it comes to energy storage and usage, the body uses the same
banks--fat, glycogen, muscle tissue or proteins--to deposit or
withdraw energy. The process of managing where energy is deposited
or withdrawn from is known as energy partitioning.

Diet has an especially strong impact on the way our metabolic
systems partition energy. Interestingly, evidence indicates that brief,
strategic periods of under eating can manipulate the hormonal
traffic cops to tell the body to partition energy to allow for the
simultaneous building of muscle and burning fat.

This is made possible in part because these controlled periods of
under eating trigger the release of Growth Hormone.

One of the key functions of Growth Hormone is to maintain growth
|and lean body mass during short periods of time when we don't have
access to food. This occurs because Growth Hormone mobilizes fat
fuel energy to be redirected (partitioned) to protein synthesis (muscle
growth).

Our bodies are not designed to maintain muscle mass during extended
periods of under eating--these situations trigger a survival response
where the body is going to use anything and everything--including
muscle--for fuel. But they are however, optimally designed to manage
short, controlled periods of under eating, allowing us to convert
excess body fat into lean muscle mass.

"Intermittent Fasting" is probably one of the fastest ways burn fat,
build lean muscle and even reverse the aging process due to the
increase of HGH. A system that includes proper nutrition rotation and
"hybrid muscle training" in conjunction with fasting would be, by
far, the best advance in the world of strength and fitness training.