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Make an experimental study where you put people with high levels of stress hormones in one group and people with low levels of stress hormones in the other grou
by belorn 5y ago
Make an experimental study where you put people with high levels of stress hormones in one group and people with low levels of stress hormones in the other group. Have both calculate TDEE and eat equally fewer calories than their TDEE, and have both conduct the same amount of exercise. After a few months collect data and compare the two groups (this would measure the effect stress has on fat uptake, metabolism, and more).
Second experiment we can do is the exact one above but rather than having two groups with different levels of stress, have one group that are children to parents who experienced starvation during pregnancy (the dutch hunger winter study). A third group could be people that got raised in low calorie environment but that now eat the same diet high calorie diet as the control (an other study done on indigenous island populations that got introduced to a western diet).
We can also make a study that looks on exercise only. Have one group doing an activity which they really enjoy and love. The second group do the exact same amount of exercise and burn the exact same amount of exercise calories, but are forced to do something which they hate every second of. This study will be somewhat similar to the first one that covers stress, but will illustrate the health effect involuntarily exercise vs voluntarily exercise for the same amount of burned calories.
My own Effective weight loss guide is:
- Reduce stress.
- Find an physical activity that you enjoy and don't stop until you find one. Do not force yourself to do a specific type of exercise if you are constantly thinking about when it is going to end.
- Look to reducing calorie uptake, through by doing the two things above this will come somewhat natural.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago> - Reduce stress. That's nice, but hardly actionable in my experience. If stress were that easy to reduce why wouldn't someone have already done it?
- belorn 5y agoNote I didn't say "easy". Stress has a massive effect on insulin production and even what specific parts of the body that takes up the energy. Stress is a significant factor in determining if that extra amount of calories is going to the brain in order to allow higher focus, or into fat cells in order to address the crisis that those stress hormones are indicating. Should the body focus on sexual reproduction and growth, or prepare for that starvation which is looming? It all depend. Maybe the ordering above is a bit wrong. Start by finding some physical activity that one likes and want to continue doing that. If you find going to the gym as being meditative then do that, but if it gives you stress then continue looking. Once you found something, try make it into a routine and let it become a thing where you go to reduce stress.