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Sure, but a lot of people would be perfectly happy eating 15% more calories to support a more energetic and healthy lifestyle. Our biological limits evolved in
by bpodgursky 6y ago
Sure, but a lot of people would be perfectly happy eating 15% more calories to support a more energetic and healthy lifestyle.
Our biological limits evolved in a calorie-scarce environment; evolution made tradeoffs about what we should be capable of doing based on whether we would starve to death.
Those tradeoffs sometimes are maladapted to the 21st century, and the metabolic hack of "eating a bit more" is not a hardship.
- nradov 6y agoRunning your metabolism 15% faster might give you more energy in the short term, but I expect the additional oxidative stress would damage long term health. There's no free lunch.
- bpodgursky 6y agoThis is pretty speculative. Jogging and doing hard word puzzles both use extra calories, and both help people live long and healthy lives.
- Alkhwarizmi 6y agoMaybe the underlying Nobel prize worthy research is are the two activities isomorphic or namely are the two processes indistinguishable?
- nradov 6y agoYes but the increased metabolic effect is mostly just during the activity. Resting metabolic rate doesn't change much. I am speculating that the extra oxidation would damage cells.