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Yeah this aligns pretty well with the research. There's a lot we don't know. But it definitely does appear that a lot of obese people have some sort of homeos
by Enginerrrd 4y ago
Yeah this aligns pretty well with the research.
There's a lot we don't know. But it definitely does appear that a lot of obese people have some sort of homeostatic miscalibration on where their body's set point is for weight. The mechanisms involved there are numerous and complex. It's quite possible that there's something simple going on that could be adjusted in the future to get a person's weight set point down, and from there it's quite likely that they will be able to autoregulate. Conversely, it's really hard for any intervention to succeed long-term when a person's weight doesn't match this internal set point.
- epicureanideal 4y ago> some sort of homeostatic miscalibration Possibly leftovers of a highly adaptive mechanism that let some of their ancestors survive times of extreme famine?
- Enginerrrd 4y agoThat's at least partially true, but there are serious issues with that explanation if you want to explain all of the effect. In particular, there really does appear to be something different going on in the last 2-4 decades or so affecting people's internal set points. When you compare to other recent historical times where there was also an abundance of food, people were self-regulating better than they are now.