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Episode #151: Energy Expenditure, Metabolism, and More with Herman Pontzer

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What's the Relationship Between Body Size and Consumption?

The relationship between body size and expenditure is not one to one. People who are very different in body size will inherently have a different ratio of energy to pounds or energy to kilograms. So if you think that you've corrected for size with that simple ratio, then you don't know what you're talking about. Dr. Ponzar: "It's my plea to the world to please understand how human metabolism actually works"

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