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

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Is Your Daily Energy Emission Going to Change?

There's a band in which different species live in and trying to go outside of that for a long period of time is incompatible with long term, with life. We measured people who ran a marathon a day from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. You can extend it for a bit, but not forever. Your body will eventually bring you down. The normal range of sustainable human activity isn't going to be as high as you think it is.

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