The Effects of Overeating on Weight Gain

The relationship between leptin and ghrelin was so screwed up. They weren't even eating a lot, but it was translating to weight gain. For them, it really was just a baseline metabolism drop and then the alteration of the hormones on top of it. If you're in a smaller body, you burn less calories,. You don't need to burn as many. There's there's less mass for that, right? Less energy required. When these people got down to 15 150 pounds, they were burning 1000 calories a day. So even if they were exercising, and you know what? It is a wow and it like devastated me when I first heard that.

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