The brain has a ‘low-power mode’ that blunts our senses

Re:The brain has a ‘low-power mode’ that blunts our senses by yieldcrv on Sunday June 19, 2022 @02:04PM (#31801742)

I read that the differences between metabolism speeds are nearly insignificant. Is where somewhere I can go to understand more about that? The general understanding between "fast" and "slow" metabolism seems to be a magic used to rationalize anything about the body, while one of my golden rules is to never trust any scale that lacks a base unit.

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Re:The brain has a ‘low-power mode’ that blunts our senses by CSMastermind on Sunday June 19, 2022 @02:25PM (#31801935)

> while one of my golden rules is to never trust any scale that lacks a base unit.

BMR is a very real thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basal_metabolic_rate

> It is reported in energy units per unit time ranging from watt (joule/second) to ml O2/min or joule per hour per kg body mass J/(h·kg).

There has been plenty of research into this, see this study into the variance among people for example: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15534426/

If you do the math, you'll find that the resting number of calories people burn will vary by a few hundred per day based on their metabolism.

I agree that there is too much woo around the science of weight loss but at the same time we don't need to act like there aren't real facts that we do know.

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Re:The brain has a ‘low-power mode’ that blunts our senses by yieldcrv on Sunday June 19, 2022 @02:33PM (#31802026)

I asked and you delivered. I wasn't claiming there was an absence, I'm claiming that the general understanding isn't quantifying anything.

Thanks, this looks like a good starting point.

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