Vivo-Morpholino: To Boost Calorie Burning, Make Your Muscles Less Efficient
Friday, February 20, 2015 - 15:20
in Biology & Nature
Less efficiency sounds bad, in the modern world of optimization, where everyone wants to sell you a 10-minute workout that maximizes your time. But in the ancient world of evolution, you need to turn the tables.Due to the boom-and-bust nature of existence prior to the last 50 years, we have evolved protection against starvation - our bodies adjust on the fly. That is why if you just go on a crash diet, you will lose some weight right away and then plateau and if you eat normally again, the weight comes back. Your body 'settles in for a long winter' and metabolic efficiency goes up. read more