Scientists reveal the exact number of beers you can drink after exercise and STILL lose weight

IF you're trying to lose weight, you have probably heard the same things over and over again.

Monitoring your choices of food and exercise, as well as your alcohol intake is pretty standard advice when it comes to watching those numbers come down on the scales.

If you like a tipple, you might be disappointed when social media stars say cutting out booze is one of the best ways to build muscle.

Muscle mass is important for weight loss as the more muscle mass you have, the more calories you will burn.

And have said that having a higher muscle mass is actually helpful when it comes to burning calories and fat.

But the good news is, you don't completely need to cut out booze and studies have shown you can have two beers and still lose weight.

A study published in found that moderate daily alcohol intake for two weeks .

While the study was carried out on rodents, expert say this implies that a beer or two is unlikely to impede your ability to build muscle in a response to resistant exercise.

Resistance training increases muscle strength by making your muscles work against a weight or force.

It includes using free weights, weight machines, resistance bands and your own body weight.

Professor Colleen Deane, of Clinical, Metabolic & Molecular Physiology, at University of Nottingham said you might actually also have an alcohol threshold.

Writing in , she said: "Once you go over it – will negatively affect the body’s muscle growth response to resistance exercise.

"Alcohol’s effect on the body’s hormones – specifically testosterone – may also impact muscle gains. Testosterone is a hormone that helps increase muscle mass in response to resistance exercise training."

The expert added that moderate doses of booze - approximated at two beers - can increase testosterone levels.