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Did you read the paper in its entirety? Honestly, did you? It is filled with well researched arguments and quite a few facts that I found highly surprising.
by drenvuk 5y ago
Did you read the paper in its entirety? Honestly, did you?
It is filled with well researched arguments and quite a few facts that I found highly surprising. I say this as a guy who went from 270 lbs down to 180 then back to 240 then down to 200 and still struggling to stay put. The descriptions of leptin induced neuroses and people's varying mental states is highly accurate. The number of different cultures that don't have this obesity issue, my previous girlfriend who grew far fatter and taller than her peers after coincidently being fed antibiotics for a long term illness as a child.
For goodness sake, did you even get to the part about the Macaques and the standard bmi distribution growing just like humans are? This situation isn't normal and congrats on losing weight but you're one triumphant data point in a growing sea of obesity.
- DiabloD3 5y agoYeah, I read it. Wasn't a bad paper, just not my pet theory. Mind you, I did the reverse: I did the thing then researched why I just achieved what is claimed by many to have been vaguely impossible. Discovered a lot of amazing research that nobody really talks about. Leptin and antibiotic research both are extremely important to this field, to the point I've now watched it go from being obscure to commonly discussed within the now-merging Paleo and Keto communities by the common folk who aren't too big on reading papers. I'm not against any theory, I'm just favoring the theory that has the best support. Contamination theory isn't invalidated by my own personal point, I very well could have stopped the contamination source (by the methods proposed in the paper) by simply not eating infected food, which Paleo seems to significantly avoid.