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by dvt 2489 days ago
You can see that there was protein turnover just after 10 days in rats: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7119891

In healthier rats, protein turnover (cannibalizing muscles / organs) was faster than in obese rats. I had some human studies bookmarked, I'll try to find them again. There were a few ketosis studies that discussed "starvation mode" so maybe try searching for that.

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> I had some human studies bookmarked, I'll try to find them again.

Please do. Rat studies are helpful, but not definitive-- close but not exact. That's why it takes so long for medicines and therapies that are shown to absolutely work on rats still take forever to reach humans.