what's up guys we're back with another educational video and this week we're talking about high fat versus lowfat diets and their effects on testosterone but first make sure you like the video subscribe to the channel and leave a comment for the algorithm so I got a post from mow hinman's Instagram sent to me by the way follow him he's excellent great evidence-based information and it was showing a metaanalysis where they looked at high fat intake over 40% of calories per day versus low fat intakes which was about on average 20% in a metaanalysis to see
if they had effects on testosterone free testosterone sex hormone binding globulin and a few other markers like DHT these studies range anywhere from like 2 to 10 weeks and they did see on average the lower fat diets reduce testosterone and here's why I don't care because body composition is more than just testosterone once again testosterone is one mechanism by which hypertrophy occurs but guess what insulin stimulates muscle protein synthesis so if you're having more fat and less carbs you're having less insulin it's not going to affect muscle protein synthesis as much or muscle protein degradation
because insulin inhibits muscle protein degradation and if we look at the human randomized control trials where they control choric intake and protein intake we just don't see differences really in body composition outcomes in people who resistance train on average so why how's that possible if they're have if high fat diets are having more testosterone how's that possible it's a pretty small change in testosterone overall we're talking anywhere from like 5 to 15% which sounds like a lot when you consider that those kinds of small changes have not been shown to actually change body composition in
the literature it makes sense just because you change the levels of a hormone a little bit does not mean you're going to change the outcome again if there's one thing you guys can take home from my videos it is care about the actual outcome outcomes are more important than mechanisms because there's more than one mechanism that sums up to an outcome outcomes are the summation of hundreds if not thousands of biochemical processes and the outcome is the summation of the signal of those processes a great example is aspirin we know people take it because it
reduces clotting but did you know that aspirin also has procoagulant qualities it activates some pro-coagulant Pathways but overall it's an anti-coagulant because the outcome is it reduces clotting but if I was like some of these people on social media I could be like oh don't take aspirin for reducing blood clots because look it activates these Pathways who gives a the question is not whether something activates a pathway or not the question is what is the overall effect of that treatment on the outcome so again when we look at lowfat versus high fat diets we might
see a small difference in testosterone but it's not going to affect body composition now if you like a higher fat diet totally fine just make sure you're controlling overall calories and getting in enough protein and fiber that is what really matters that's why our app carbon diet coach does not pigeonhole you into any one way of doing things you can do a high-fat diet you can do a lowfat diet you can do anything in between what's most important is your adherence and focusing on the outcomes because that is the that matters if you guys are
interested in carbon diet coach click the link in my description we're available on IOS and Android and I will catch you next week
