Fitness & Metabolic Health
Fitness, weight and recovery — what actually has evidence behind it, what doesn't, and why none of it is as simple as “eat less, move more.”
10 articles in this section.
Metabolism crashing at 40, starvation mode, fat-burning foods, thin people with fast metabolisms, and whether dieting wrecked yours. Here's the straight version.
What keto really does, how much of that first week is water, what happens by month twelve, and why most people quit for reasons that have nothing to do with willpower.
Where the official number came from, why researchers who study weight loss and aging say eat more, how to spread it out, and who should check with a clinician first.
What the fasting trials actually found, where the big claims run ahead of the evidence, who it fits, and the one finding that should change how you do it.
Some of every pound you lose is muscle. What decides how much, why it makes the next round harder, and the two things that change the ratio.
What short sleep does to hunger, the trial that had people sleep more and watched them eat less, why sleep changes what kind of weight you lose, and the thing most people never get checked.
Keto, fasting, counting, Mediterranean, high protein. What each one really does, who it fits, and why the one you quit was never your fault.
What a plateau really is, why it hits almost everybody around the same point, what helps, and why it is not evidence that you did anything wrong.
Everybody suddenly looks incredible and nobody will say why. Here's what people are really doing, what it's really like, and why nobody's studying half of it.
What the withdrawal studies found about regain, why it happens, what else comes back with it, and how to think about this without hating yourself.