Are you STILL restricting calories in 2025?

The issue isn't that you're eating too much; it's that your body can't efficiently convert what you eat into USABLE energy.

Think of it like this: food is potential energy, but your body has to convert that into kinetic energy to repair DNA, make hormones, and power all your cellular processes.

When your mitochondria (your cellular power plants) aren... See more

The real problem is the "calories in, calories out" model is too simplistic.

From a bioenergetic perspective...

Chronic illness and weight gain are actually energy production problems.

Restricting calories can trigger adaptive thermogenesis — your body simply turns down its thermostat to CONSERVE energy.

Your thyroid hormones become less powerful, either downregulated at the level of conversion from T4 to T3, or T4 goes to reverse T3, or downregulated at the level of the receptors.

And literature shows that restricting calories cau... See more

And there's plenty of research showing that the vast majority of people who lose weight through calorie restriction regain it — usually with interest (PMID: 28657838)

There are controlled feeding studies showing VERY clearly that when humans eat ultra processed foods they are hungrier and eat MORE...

Vs. humans eating unprocessed meat and plants who achieve satiety sooner eating about 400 calories LESS per day (PMID 31105044)

Focus on ENERGY EFFICIENCY

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​ Eat foods that signal abundance to your body and support proper mitochondrial function - meat, organs, fruit, raw honey, and raw dairy.