Does Fasting actually reduce your Strength & Endurance?

Yes.

…Sort of…

… it’s more complicated than you may think!

Whenever I’ve brought up multi-day fasting in the past to friends/family/anyone who will listen, I’m met with a few common objections to fasting:

“Doesn’t fasting just make you lose all your muscles…?! Seems like a multi-day fast will just leave you scrawny…”

As I written about in the past, the benefits of fasting for me at least are more mental than physical, but I…