This is the most repeated claim in low-carb and carnivore spaces, and it needs to be taken apart carefully, because half of it is true. Researchers added 50 g of fat to a standard breakfast. They measured the next 6 hours, then the next 18. Fat oxidation: no increase. Energy expenditure: no increase. The extra fat: stored. It made no difference whether the subject was aerobically fit. (Bennett et al., 1992, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition; R§26) This wasn't a one-off. Three years earlier, a respiration-chamber study added 106 g of fat per day. Twenty-four-hour energy expenditure: unchanged. Fat oxidation: unchanged. Energy balance tracked fat balance at r = 0.96, and didn't track carbohydrate balance at all. (Schutz et al., 1989, same journal; R§26) Two independent experiments, different labs, three years apart, same answer. At maintenance, eating fat does not raise the oxidation of your own fat. No deficit was asking for it. Now the half that's true. A high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet does raise the rate at which your body can oxidise fat. Within days. In a 33-study analysis of athletes, all 30 that measured it found the rate up by 28% to 200%. (R§29) And one crossover showed it's the fat doing it, not the missing carbohydrate. So the machinery retools fast. What doesn't change is how much body fat you lose at the same energy. That's set by the deficit, and by fat eaten minus fat oxidised. In a metabolic ward, an 80%-fat diet at the same energy slowed body-fat loss. (Hall et al., 2016; R§27) Rate up, balance unchanged. Two different quantities, and the argument only works if you keep them apart. There's also a mechanism working directly against you here, and almost nobody mentions it. Ketones suppress lipolysis through a receptor called HCA2. Tested head-to-head, ketone infusion abrogates growth-hormone-driven lipolysis. When ketones are high, the brake overrides the accelerator. Ketones made from your own fat throttle appropriately; you drew down the store to make them.

I've lost access to a thread elsewhere where I documented my journey with retatrutide so I thought I'd continue it here. It should always have been here tbh because the success im having with it is completely down to the excellent advice I've had from the man , the myth the legend, @Shaun Womersley It's only fair that present and future members here get to see how much a suitably qualified and capable advisor, I recommend Shaun unequivocally, can steer you in the right direction. So I began April the 8th with the following stats Weight 95.6kg Waist 38" Chest 48" Arms 17 1/2 Leg 26 1/2 Today I'm at Weight 80kg Waist 33 3/4 Chest 46" Arms 16 3/4 Legs 24 1/4 Okay I've lost a little muscle it would appear, however I'm in replacement dose try during this , wheres before I was running test a little higher ( still within human ranges ) but using the old dbol so there would have been some bloat in the first set of measurements. I'm hugely happy with the progress on appearance as a now look like ( and am ) a relatively fit and in shape bloke not a beer monster. It's really effective stuff if you can get into the mindset to go low and slow ( I was a diva a out this to begin with admittedly) In hunger free , have great energy and feel great. Stop me before I start looking like Kelly Osbourne but at this point I can't recommend this stuff , and the big homie Shaun , enough. Now I'm going out sprinting. Which if I did it when I weighed 95 kg , I think my hooves might have fallen off Dose as per Shaun was 0.5 mg first two weeks to acclimatise , then 1mg and my personal choice was not to go higher as it's enough to tickle this fat loss along with zero side effects and it means I get ten weeks out of a ten mg vial which isn't bad for a life changing result ( less than a tenner a week for the source I used )

My husband is looking for protein powder recommendations. He doesn’t like all the sweet chocolate/vanilla/strawberry types; he’s looking for something which is more like a squash flavour rather than a milkshake! And not too sweet ideally. He uses the lemon ESN whey one at the moment but they keep hiking the price up. His bro gym sells them but from what I’ve seen on the shelf, it looks like a lot of garbage ingredients. Any recommendations?

Some good results this week. Ahi halved from last week. I didn't have motsc last week and have upped reta to 2mg now . Wonder if it can cure me? Also interesting things in the pipeline https://apnimed.com/ad109/

Hello guys. Has anybody come across any sort of information for somebody who is low / zero carb and on reta or tried reta. I need help with food noise and I might be tempted to jump on reta at a small dosage. I don’t wanna feel like shit thou so I would need to do it properly.