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Metabolism myths

Eating 6 meals a day is commonly prescribed to lose fat. Consuming fewer, larger meals will supposedly make you fat and it’s better to have a ‘grazing’ eating pattern with more, smaller meals. The idea behind this is that each meal increases your metabolic rate, so having more meals increases your t…

Metabolic damage. It’s every dieter’s worst nightmare. The theory of metabolic damage states that your metabolism slows down permanently, i.e. is damaged, after prolonged periods of being in energy deficit. This decrease in energy expenditure has been used to explain the occurrence of the yo-yo effe…

A recent study provides further evidence that sarcoplasmic hypertrophy is a real phenomenon. The details, however, are still murky.

Abel Csabai from the Sustainable Self-Development Podcast interviewed me on refeeds and diet breaks, along with general dieting psychology. I really like this topic, as I feel like many people aren’t very evidence-based when it comes to psychology just because it’s a fuzzy science compared to the cl…

Didn’t get a chance to catch up with the latest research this summer? Here are 22 of the most interesting research posts from July and August 2017. 1. Spot reduction is probably not a myth after all /mennohenselmans.com/science-spot-reduction-myth/ 2. Sleep optimization is underrated for your gains…