The body cannot magically conjure up more cArOliEs if you go jogging, it just takes the energy from somewhere else. Just like spending money doesn’t

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2024-06-21 19:00:09

The body cannot magically conjure up more cArOliEs if you go jogging, it just takes the energy from somewhere else. Just like spending money doesn’t increase your income, it just re-routes existing expenditures.

Pontzer spends a whopping 5 pages (1.6% of the book) regaling us with a story about how, this one time in grad school, he got totally wasted and had a hangover and puked. Many such cases.

Herman Pontzer is a metabolic researcher. He’s made quite the splash in the last few years. One of his specialties is using “ doubly-labeled water” to measure the ACTUAL caloric burn of people (and animals) in their daily lives.

It’s a pretty elegant method, which works by giving you special “labeled” water to drink and measuring how slow or fast it is secreted out of your body.

“Labeled” here just means it’s a special version of a common molecule, usually deuterium (2H) for hydrogen and an oxygen molecule called 18O for oxygen.