"We expected to find that these people are really active and to have high activity metabolic rates matched by high food intakes," says corresponding author John Speakman, a professor at the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology in China and the University of Aberdeen in the UK. "It turns out that something rather different is going on. They had lower food intakes and lower activity, as well as surprisingly highe…
Makes me wonder, if thyroid disorders can cause obesity, can thyroid-modifying therapy or exogenous thyroid hormones treat obesity?
Certain mental disorders (depression and anxiety) also highly correlate with obesity and/or underweight.
A common treatment for ADHD (stimulants) often gets folks to a healthy weight that previously struggled on one side or the other.
It’s a complex problem, with a lot of ever changing variables we have little insight into.
Anecdotally, I know of several boomers that had serious thyroid issues likely tied to exposure to the Santa Susana Field Lab and Nevada nuclear testing. They were consuming milk and other products from areas contaminated by them at the right times.
All the various plastics we’ve all been exposed to and other various chemicals are also likely doing something too.
But also, the whole country has gotten dramatically more sedentary and media consumption focused, and the media keeps getting more and more anxiety inducing and alienating. As a country, we all need to ‘get out and touch some grass’ more too.