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I know the comment is being tongue in cheek, so in that vein I think T1D had good marketing in being called juvenile diabetes. It is harder for people to demonize a disease as if it is purely a lifestyle consequence when it shows up in innocent kids. T1D is in most cases an autoimmune disease with the body attacking its…

One thing I get tired of with these posts is these people that talk about type 2 diabetes with just an elementary etiology of the disease that they confound the diagnostic methods with the progression of the disease. T2D is not merely a disruption of glucose metabolism, it is not caused directly by glucose metabolism, and…

Plants make CO2. I find it odd how people seem to forget that. Almost no one gets this question right: "If you put a plant and rat in an air tight container with no light, will the rat live longer if it shared a container with the plant, or a separate container?" The correct answer being separate since in the dark, both…

We can't? Don't we for sure know their microbiomes were less healthy as they lived shorter lives? It must have been horrible in the past to have those microbiomes that caused death during child birth. Antibiotics must be slowly taking those to extinction in humans. Yeah, that's sarcasm that attempts to counter this weird…

I'm less sure now about this. There was research that suggested food out of sight, out of mind helps, but I believe a lot of it came out of the Cornell labs run by Wansink. Wansink was found to have not just done p-hacking on various studies but also just whole sale created data. My general principle is usually to make the…

I don't look at it too much, but oddly I more monitor against it going too low rather than looking for it to get lower. When I initially dieted to my lowest weight, I had issues with hunger and energy that were at least in part because I was leaner than I thought I was, and a DEXA scan showed me that. When I looked back…

I've never been underweight. I've technically only even ever been normal weight, rather than overweight for a few months when I was at single digit body fat. That said, I did have a stranger once approach me in the parking lot at a Sam's Club when I was similarly lean (technically overweight at the time) and tell something…

Do you mean this study that was retracted? https://diabetes.diabetesjournals.org/content/65/5/1447.full Yeah, how foolish for people not to immediately extend one study in a different class of animals immediately to health for all humans, particularly one that had not been replicated. Well that retracted study was actually…

I'd take $5 bets on of the population of maintainers (2+ years) more will say sugar is acceptable or acceptable in moderation than say abstaince is necessary. I'd even place $5 on it being more tightly correlated than the correlation between drop outs and saying sugar is acceptable. Though I think I never myself made it to…

Similar to making a "Paleo" microwave brownie? https://joyfoodsunshine.com/paleo-microwave-brownie/ Those run ~230 calories, ~15 net carbs.

What I've heard over and over from actual PhD researchers about gut microbiomes in listening to them talk on various health and fitness podcasts is that it is pretty hard to make any firm statements on what a microbiome should look like. There's a lot of research filled with correlations of various types and not nearly as…

I don't know the specifics of any given gym in the UK, but I've heard of various approaches here in the US for parts that have reopened with restrictions. I've seen images of gyms in California where the power racks / equipment is in a protective plastic bubble to isolate users. I've heard of people having to register for…

Genetics determine nothing, ever. That probably sounds excessively absolute, but it is true. All genes are dependent on environment for expression - I don't care what your genes say, if you're stepping in lava, your weight is going to 0 pretty fast, just to use the most extreme example. Somewhat more realistic, if you…

The leaner you are, the more you'll have water weight fluctuations as a percentage of your body weight has been my experience and what I've heard from others. There is a tendency to get what people call squishy fat.

Your fact actually flies in the face of one of the most reliably observed laws that impacts everything in this universe - the laws of thermodynamics. Every molecule of matter and joule of energy follows energy (calories) in and energy out have to be equal - there's never a creation or destruction of energy, only…

You can pick whatever alcohol you want - pick your poison, so to speak. My point is though, you've already stated you believe alcohol impacts your loss. Given that, I'm saying I would go for alcohol that is likely to have the least side effects, given that a priori condition. Something with less congeners seems something…

I would think red wine would be one of the worst choices for that. Generally, when drinking while trying to be lean, you're looking for the most alcohol to the least calories and least congeners. Congeners are byproducts of alcohol fermentation that are generally associated with the negative effects, like hangover, that…

Just to be a semantics twit: https://www.doughbardoughnuts.com/pages/frontpage You could potentially hit a decent but not necessarily optimal protein level putting that in the doughnut mix - probably want to throw in a multivitamin too just in case. It would definitely be a pretty YOLO IIFYM diet.

I've had other scars but since I got them when I was six and eight, I don't really recall the progress of their change in size and color, which would probably be some of the best insight into my own scars. Like scars healing, I've been told things like the bloating will continue in the are for six months to a year. I…

Not sure if that really changes much of the potential problems for underweight individuals, particularly not for women. There are levels of too little body fat for women which will cause amenorrhea, along with other hormonal issues, and that tends to lead to bone density loss. In men, prolonged low body fat is generally…

Guidelines for insurance tend to build off some of the same guidelines - I think they maybe based on the WHO ICD. There's panectomy for abdominal flaps of a certain length - reaching the pubic bone area - and having issues with skin infections that don't go away. Panectomy is pretty much the only skin removal that seems to…

Talk to your doctor. I'm not anything medical, but Jardiance seems like it could be a component. Its mechanism of action is to block reuptake of glucose by the kidneys. If you are losing calories via reduced glucose, the normal rule of 3500 calories per pound does not apply. Glucose is typically stored as glycogen, which…

Besides your water intake, what is your vegetable and fiber intake like? It is concerning if you feel the need to rely on laxatives to have a movement. As everyone said, weight loss will come down to getting the calories you take in lower than the calories your body uses. More water might help with that both in terms of…

I'm not sure what this would mean. What kind of cleaning do you feel happens and why?

Before going for full blown lipo, I'd try doing a month or two of stubborn fat protocol, if I had a problem spot while already lean. I'd then take a look into cool lipo over traditional because of the recovery time on traditional lip. Personally, I'm 16 weeks after having loose skin removal - circumferential abdominoplasty…

Well there is set point, which may be an actual weight your body senses and acts on, and then there is settling point, which would be a combination of the set point if exists and the lifestyle you live in. It seems that individuals with obese BMI's tend not to exist in any of the hunter-gatherer cultures normally - it is…

I'm wondering where this is coming from. Glycogen storage runs about 3-4x water to glucose storage, so 50g would be at most 250g stored under that assumption. Being generous with research on athletes and super compensation storage, you could have a 10x parts water to glucose. Even that gives you 550g, which is a little…

Oh the point of saying it wasn't a prophylactic was just confirming that placebo effect is known to still happen even when a subject is aware they're being placebo-ed. Some of it is, as you suggested, just the effect of social affiliation that comes with a treatment - even animals get placebo effect without understanding…

One thing is for sure, it really doesn't work if you try eating back someone else's exercise calories. I attached a Fitbit to my cat and and set it for his weight. It was decent steps, but still I ended up having negative calorie adjustments put at 1500 every day. For some reason I felt tired. Weight was coming off pretty…

Seems a tautology. Having good reasons to use a treatment seems the definition of favorable. One of my points - with the cryotheraphy as an example - is that favorable could be deceptive. Feeling it is easing one's pain could appear favorable, but if hypothetically actually degeneratively weakens the muscle, it isn't…