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#33 - Rudy Leibel, M.D.: Finding the obesity gene and discovering leptin

The Peter Attia Drive

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Do You Have a Room Calorimeter?

Both methods are ingenious and completely distinct. Both have huge limitations. The former, of course, requires an artificial environment. They can't really study them for that long. But the latter, where they can be free living, you can study them for two weeks at a time. And in an ideal world, it'd better be the same thing almost every day. i think most investigators in this field prefer, at least in terms of its nominal accuracy, the room calorimeter over the doubly labelled water.

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