🏋️‍♀️ Extended version of this interview: https://www.patreon.com/evidencestrong/posts/keeping-muscle-166807530 🏋️‍♀️

Manipulating body weight in sports like weightlifting and powerlifting may influence performance. This is because when losing weight, athletes usually lose some muscle mass, not only fat. But what would happen if all the weight loss came from the fat tissue? Khash Farzam discusses his patient, a powerlifter, who lost only fat, kept all his muscle, but still lost some strength.

Dr. Khashayar Farzam is an emergency physician in Kitchener-Waterloo with a broad clinical background in acute care, metabolic health, obesity medicine, and men’s health. He is the founder of True North Metabolic, a physic ...