Can You Build Muscle While Doing Intermittent Fasting?

Does intermittent fasting affect lean muscle mass?

Intermittent fasting has been in the news lately. This is not surprising as it is a trendy “diet.” But does it affect lean muscle mass?

There are several types of intermittent fasting, but they all share one thing in common: they last longer than the regular overnight fast.

Several pieces of nutrition-based research have shown that intermittent fasting can help a person lose some fat. However, there’s a little bit of alarm in that it seems to have the potential to cause muscle loss.

This article will explicitly discuss how intermittent fasting affects your lean muscle mass.

What is intermittent fasting?

As popular as the concept of intermittent fasting is, there’s still some confusion about what it is.

This is not surprising because intermittent fasting is an inclusive term that describes several kinds of eating. The most typical types of intermittent fasting include (1):

1. Time-restricted fasting: Intake of calories is restricted to a couple of hours daily, ranging from 4–12 hours. In most cases, there’s always an 8-hour eating period.
2. Alternate-day fasting: In this form of fasting, you will alternate between non-fasting and fasting days. This implies that…