Joy Kong, MD explains follistatin, a protein that may shift your metabolism to build muscle and burn fat simultaneously without heavy lifting. Historically, losing weight meant losing muscle too, but follistatin could change that equation.
So Follistatin can help you put on muscle mass. Does that help you lose weight?
Yes. Whenever you're optimizing your metabolism, it kind of leans you a little bit into the anabolic state. Most of the people who've used it, they report almost like a recomposition effect, like getting leaner and putting on muscle at the same time, which can be a bit. It's not. Not achievable. But historically, how we viewed it, it is difficult because you're either in a catabolic state or an anabolic state. If you want to lose weight, you got to be calorie deficit. A lot of this information has transformed in the last decade, I would say, but this definitely is a good agent that can. You can go through a transformation and.
Without going to the gym and lifting heavy weights.
