Santhosh Guru

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Our metabolic engines shift and change to make room for increased activity costs, ultimately keeping daily energy expenditure within a narrow window. As a result, physically active people—whether it’s hunter-gatherers living today or in our collective past, or people in the industrialized world who exercise regularly—burn the same amount of energy as people who are much more sedentary.
Santhosh Guru
Great insight and very much contrarian
Burn: The Misunderstood Science of Metabolism
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