Weight & Metabolic Health
What actually has evidence behind it, what doesn't, and why weight loss is harder than anyone admits.
10 articles in this section.
- 5 Things People Believe About Metabolism That Aren't True
Metabolism slowing at 40, starvation mode, metabolism-boosting foods, thin people having fast metabolisms, and whether dieting wrecks it. What research shows.
- Does the Keto Diet Work?
What ketogenic diets actually do, how much of the early weight loss is water, what trials show at six and twelve months, and who tends to do well on keto.
- How Much Protein Do You Actually Need?
The official minimum, why researchers who study weight loss and aging suggest more, how to spread it across the day, and who should be cautious.
- How Sleep Affects Weight
What controlled sleep studies show about hunger hormones, calorie intake and fat loss, plus why short sleep makes dieting harder and what helps.
- How to Lose Weight: What Actually Has Evidence Behind It
A plain look at what the research supports for losing weight, what it does not, and why the diet you pick matters less than whether you can keep doing it.
- Intermittent Fasting: What the Research Shows
What randomized trials of time restricted eating and alternate day fasting actually found, where the popular claims outrun the evidence, and who it suits.
- Losing Fat vs. Losing Muscle: Why the Difference Matters
The scale cannot tell fat from muscle. What determines the ratio, why losing muscle makes regain more likely, and the two things that change it.
- The 5 Diets Most People Try, and What Happens With Each
Keto, intermittent fasting, calorie counting, Mediterranean and high protein: what each one is, what trials show, who does well on it, and why people quit.
- Weight Regain After Stopping a GLP-1: What Studies Show
What withdrawal trials of semaglutide and tirzepatide found about regain, why it happens, what comes back besides weight, and what people can do about it.
- Why Weight Loss Stalls, and What a Plateau Actually Is
What is physically happening when the scale stops moving, why it happens to almost everyone around the same point, and what actually helps versus what does not.