Energy compensation

[Eddy Edson]

Another new study supporting the theme that when you expend more energy, your underlying cell activity decreases to partially compensate. And the effect increases with increasing BMI. So I guess: the more overweight you are, the less useful exercise as a weight loss strategy, on average. But big individual variability.

Energy compensation and adiposity in humans

Understanding the impacts of activity on energy balance is crucial. Increasing levels of activity may bring diminishing returns in energy expenditure …

www.sciencedirect.com

Lead author has made a brief explainer video:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1431278681947836416

 

[Docb]

I'm thinking I must rejoice in not doing science for a living anymore. No way I could cope with incomprehensible papers with 60 odd authors that need an "explainer" on a twitter video.

 

[Eddy Edson]

I'm thinking I must rejoice in not doing science for a living anymore. No way I could cope with incomprehensible papers with 60 odd authors that need an "explainer" on a twitter video.

There's a gadzillion authors because it's coming out of a big int'l consortium sponsored/funded by the International Atomic Energy Agency for gathering the world's biggest database of "doubly labelled water" measurements. DLW is the gold standard for human energy studies, using radioactive isotopes, hence the IAEA involvement. Also very expensive, so this is way the biggest database in the world.

I guess lots of the consortium investigators get their names on papers, as seems to be the way of things. There will be a bunch more papers from the consortium from now on, presumably with generally the same authors. This from the other day was another one: https://forum.diabetes.org.uk/board...ent-what-we-probably-thought-they-were.95267/

Paper seems pretty straightforward to me but YMMV.

 

[Docb]

Paper seems pretty straightforward to me but YMMV.

Too true Eddy (having looked up YMMV🙂). Must be a bit irritating for the last bloke on the list who probably did most of the work and only ever appears as "et al".

 

[Eddy Edson]

Must be a bit irritating for the last bloke on the list who probably did most of the work and only ever appears as "et al".

That's what post-docs are for! 🙂