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#377: Herman Pontzer, PhD – Metabolism, Mitochondria & Evolutionary Biology

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How Does Metabolism Affect Body Composition?

There's so many aspects as I was reading through your book that are just fascinating even before we get into directly how metabolism influences body composition diet exercise and so on. We'll definitely maybe touch on some of those misconceptions related to ancestral diets later in this discussion. One towards the start of the book that you mentioned was how humans are different to other mammals in our growth and development rates where we're kind of basically the outliers whereas often we think of other creatures being strange.

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