Rats that ate almost no carbs but lots of fat and protein still grew just as much muscle as rats eating a normal high-carb diet when both did weightlifting.

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Carbohydrate intake and resistance-based exercise: are current recommendations reflective of actual need?

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2016 Dec

This study found that even when people eat very few carbs, their muscles still grow just fine during weight training because the body’s muscle-building signals keep working. So it supports the idea that low-carb diets don’t hurt muscle growth.

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Carbohydrate intake and resistance-based exercise: are current recommendations reflective of actual need?

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DOI: 10.1017/S0007114516003949

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