Re: Low-carb diets and ketosis
Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2021 7:49 am
I think you are very correct in your thinking. The higher protein would support muscle growth, but the loss of glycogen would result in loss of water which would result in loss of muscle volume. Like I started taking creatine (Many years ago) I gained 10lbs straight away, and when I stopped taking it I lost htose ten pounds quite rapidly. It was just water weight, but would definitely contribute to skewing all of the accepted available measurements for LBM and bodyfat %. And you look less "Swole" with less volume of water. BBers replenish carbs between pre-judging and judging to pump everything back up and look rounder and fuller, that's all about water retention. If they overdo it they look a little puffy and "Less sharp", which is to say it affects the skin and hides striations and stuff a little. I am significantly more vascular on keto, and cutting fat from everywhere. A big difference is I still have shoulders, which tried to disappear on me the one other time I did a big cut and wasn't keto.mbasic wrote: ↑Fri Jul 02, 2021 7:25 am1 - meta study ... with only n=288 spread out over 13 trials/studies?Allentown wrote: ↑Fri Jul 02, 2021 6:07 am https://www.instagram.com/tv/CQwfLZDAHs ... =copy_link
Possibly don't do Keto if you are looking to increase or maintain LBM?
2 - [TL;DR "water is wet"] I wonder how they measured LBM in all 13 of the studies?
Every knows the first thing to go is a shit-ton of water weight when embarking on one of these diets.
People often bitch at the lowcarb-ers: "yOu ArE nOT LoOSiNg tHat muCH fAt!!! iTs AlL wATeR WeiGHT yOU DumB A$S !!!111!"
IIRC, water is a big part of muscle, because muscle stored glycogen.
So I might be wrong, but it wouldn't be surprising if your MEASURABLE muscle mass went down on a Dexa scan or whatever,
because glycogen reserves are being depleted.
I don't think all that translates to you loosing actually muscle contractile units(cells) or whatever.
Fat cells contain mostly fat, its basically oil IIRC.
Being that inherit water loss is a ubiquitous physiological effect for low-barb/keto diets .... it wouldn't be surprising if every one of the 13 studies is kinda fucked up in that same way.Most of animal body water is contained in various body fluids. These include intracellular fluid; extracellular fluid; plasma; interstitial fluid; and transcellular fluid.[5] Water is also contained inside organs, in gastrointestinal, cerebrospinal, peritoneal, and ocular fluids. Adipose tissue contains about 10% of water, while muscle tissue contains about 75%.[6][7]
Maybe I'm wrong.