My concern is that fasting in this state would eat up my muscle mass because of the elevated cortisol
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When I do prolonged fasts I lose a lot of fat percentage and only a tiny bit of muscle. I bet you’d lose more muscle being in a large caloric deficit for some time instead of doing a proper water fast, look it up!
The fast might also fix whatever is wrong, it’s incredible how much a prolonged water fast can do
If you start smelling ammonia, eat something. This means you are burning muscle instead of fat.
This is usually an issue at the end of a long endurance race.
Like just randomly smelling ammonia??
Yes
What does it even smell like 😂
Smells kind of like urine.
I think if you have fat to burn, your body will burn that instead of muscle when carbohydrates are low. This is really only an issue with long intense cardio workouts
I think when cortisol is elevated, the body prioritizes fat for survival and will eat muscles. It’s really complex lol