Paul Saladino· MD
It’s not about how many calories you eat… it’s the quality of your calories that truly matters!
The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
It’s not about how many calories you eat… it’s the quality of your calories that truly matters!
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But what we're not being honest about is how the ingredients in the Oreos, the ingredients in the Doritos, the Takis, whatever, are actually poisonous for humans. And the quality of the calories in impairs your ability to do calories out. So that's the equation that people will will come back to online. Calories in, calories out. Yes, it works thermodynamically, but the quality of the food we eat affects how much energy we can make on the back end.