Category: Weight loss advice

I share studies on how heritable your body weight is, and share a pretty wild list of traits you’d never expect to be just as or more heritable than your weight.

The bonus content and discussion forums I talk about are over on my Patreon page.

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Links mentioned in the video:

• Patreon to support me making videos + bonus content + forums
• Key study links:
  • Human Obesity: A Heritable Neurobehavioral Disorder That Is Highly Sensitive to Environmental Conditions
  • Happiness: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/twin-research-and-human-genetics/article/heritability-and-genomewide-linkage-scan-of-subjective-happiness/71536537CBD1619EA68A6E98919532B6
  • Interests: http://psych.colorado.edu/~carey/Courses/PSYC5112/Readings/interests_lykken.pdf
  • Income: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2253264
  • Talent: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10519-009-9260-5
  • Educational attainment: https://academic.oup.com/sf/article-abstract/92/1/109/2235872
  • Dog ownership https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-44083-9?fbclid=IwAR2b-rqBWIjX9UB76jvDKvYCCLXAkFg6wNREFgDPaVvFTC408i7BptAl-HU
  • Partisan attachment https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1065912908327607?casa_token=o0sdCet0z_MAAAAA:TD2f0L73lZKxR9C3Liz5d_Y2FsIGfSPkKg6n8SjtbsU_XDNlQXJDMLli8CgmiC51Amsnb_56ry85
  • Career https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0001879191900057
  • Choice of subject in college https://www.nature.com/articles/srep26373
  • DUIs https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/twin-research-and-human-genetics/article/heritability-of-dui-convictions-a-twin-study-of-driving-under-the-influence-of-alcohol/F579DA58BFAA1A00531A94288F5CDCB3
  • How much people text https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/twin-research-and-human-genetics/article/heritability-and-genetic-correlates-of-mobile-phone-use-a-twin-study-of-consumer-behavior/56022F02DE9EDBE7A79607E719B652DC
  • Sickness absences https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016726811300125X?casa_token=z57IjWzwlXwAAAAA:6mcnBONEDK7AkahDfGlFLstfiSBrjnVQ8IS84f_Fo_5NlOP2cst4lOu_JRjo_58SEuJBAfYV1A
  • (you can find the other auxiliary study links by searching the titles that are shown in the video)

Time for part 2 of the series we started last week on metabolic slowdown! In part 1 I told you about the new cause of metabolic slowdown that was recently discovered, and today I’m bringing you studies with solutions. There are hardly any that have been discovered yet, so this list is pretty exhaustive.

Here’s a link to the video page, or you can watch it below:

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Links mentioned in the video:

• Gofundme to improve my sound equipment + start a podcast!
• Patreon to support me making videos
• Key study links:
  • Organic
  • Dairy & Fish as major sources
  • Vegan diet
  • Sweating
  • Donations
  • (you can find the other auxiliary study links by searching the titles that are shown in the video)

It seems like every “weight loss guru” has their own theory for why metabolic slowdown happens after weight loss and why some people seem to have naturally slow metabolisms, but there is actual science out there–it’s just that no one seems to know about it.

Finding and interpreting academic articles is hard, but that’s what a huge chunk of my PhD training was for. So today I’m using that to bring you studies about a crazy cause of slow metabolisms–both in general and after weight loss–that you’ve probably never heard of.

Here’s a link to the video page, or you can watch it below:

Subscribe to my Youtube channel to stay updated on future videos 🙂

Links mentioned in the video:

• Gofundme to improve my sound equipment + start a podcast!
• Patreon to support me making videos
• Key study links:
  • Increased levels after weight loss
  • Relation between levels, T3, and metabolic slowdown
  • Direct relation between levels and metabolic slowdown
  • Relationship to slowed metabolism/obesity even without weight loss
  • How it causally inhibits diet-induced thermogenesis
  • (you can find the other auxiliary study links by searching the titles that are shown in the video)