I have a really low BMI but also I definitely run cold. My wife and I regularly fight over the thermostat.
People with low BMI aren't more active, they are just less hungry, 'run hotter'
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#42The study was underweight bmi vs healthy bmi. Nothing about overweight bmi, which I would assume is the trifecta of overeating, little activity, and slower metabolism. At least that is my personal experience in going from overweight to healthy bmi.
Really not surprising that people that eat less have lower bmi and higher metabolism than people that eat more with a slower metabolism but who are more active.
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#43My family has Sami heritage, we run cold. My average body temp is 96.8 degrees. We also have trouble with hyperlipidemia, obesity, and early heart disease. So the genetics of all of this will be interesting. I have managed to avoid my family curse by eating pretty much only fish and game meat, like a Sami. And I do not eat much. It was the only diet that would raise my HDL.
Samis are also pretty small people. Almost like elves. That can actually be an advantage for longevity in some ways.
Yeah, we are all short stature as well. If fact, my older brother was given growth hormones as a young child because he was not "growing as expected". Idiots. All Inuit populations are shorter on average.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Makes me wonder, if thyroid disorders can cause obesity, can thyroid-modifying therapy or exogenous thyroid hormones treat obesity?
Common symptoms of thyroid disorders include obesity and/or excessive thinness (not anorexia per-se, but it can look like it), along with a cornocopia of other issues. 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 pr…
>All the various plastics we’ve all been exposed to and other various chemicals are also likely doing something too.
Is this based on a study or something, or is it more of a reaction to all the news stories about that lately? (news peddles fear without anything to back it up typically)
Re: People with low BMI aren't more active, they are just less hungry, 'run hotter'
#46Seems to line up with my experience, am always burning up (until I turn on the AC and freeze) Especially at night though I have to to jack the temperature down or I won't sleep. Also less hungry aligns pretty well. Unfortunately when I get hungry, it's normally "a little hungry) at akward spread out intervals. I probably feel most hungry after midnight but never eat then because well, I have to sleep soon. I've tried…
If you run hotter, wouldn't you feel less hot? Since your normal temperature would be that much higher than the ambient temperature. At least, when I have a fever I feel cold, even though I'm hot.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not just "peer code review" from a good friend or someone working on the same project as you - a review from somebody who has a ton of stuff to review at once, in many different areas, and very limited time to do it.
Still better than something someone didn’t even bother trying to peer review, usually.
Not always. As academia becomes increasingly autocratic and contaminated by power, peer reviews become a marker for group-think, and placing relevance into peer review is a mechanism to empower the oligarchy and suppress technical dissidence, therefore anti-scientific.
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#48Does this breakdown when you gain weight? Like when I was 20 I weighed 180lbs of solid muscle and was always like a furnace. Then I slipped a disk and now at 28 I'm lucky if I hover around 240 (I've actually been back lifting for the last 2.5 months and feel pretty good) but I definitely feel like I run colder in general now that I'm overweight.
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#49Seems to line up with my experience, am always burning up (until I turn on the AC and freeze) Especially at night though I have to to jack the temperature down or I won't sleep. Also less hungry aligns pretty well. Unfortunately when I get hungry, it's normally "a little hungry) at akward spread out intervals. I probably feel most hungry after midnight but never eat then because well, I have to sleep soon. I've tried…
Alcohol and ice cream before bed will help you gain weight. Doesn't even have to be a lot - like one drink and 1/2-1 cup of ice cream.
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#50To be fully honest - I can relate to this. During my college years, I ate a full-size burger, potato fries, and soda every day for lunch for ~2 years. I never got fat and retained a healthy BMI, never crossing 200lbs despite being a 6'2" male - even though I almost never exercised and spent almost all day sitting working in the Math Lab. I did skip breakfast regularly so maybe that had something to do with it. My fam…
What did you eat for the rest of the day? Even if that meal was 2k calories, if you walked around campus a bit and ate moderate breakfasts and dinners then it’s not that crazy.
It’s hard to get fat from one bad meal a day. What typically gets people is eating their daily needs via meals and then having high calorie snacks on top of that.