The concept of metabolic adaption is scary to me. Not because it’s right or wrong, but because it’s often prescribed to dieters without any examination.
People are told that if they have been dieting for a long period of time and are now having problems losing weight, then their hormone levels have been compromised by all the dieting and therefore they must ‘eat up’ for a length of time to restore their hormone levels.
And this *MAY* be true, but it also may not be true.
The problem with telling a person that their hormones levels are up or down is that you typically do not have any kind of baseline measurements.
It’s rare to hear that a person has a record of their blood profiles that were recorded when they were at their healthiest or at their ideal (ie. not overweight and not dieting).
Even if blood samples were taken right before a diet […]

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