I just watched an episode of House and he diagnosed a girl with Cushing’s – an illness that can cause obesity.
How is that possible? I was under the impression that our bodies use energy we get from food, and if it doesn’t get the food it’ll burn fat resulting in us getting slimmer – how can a disease change that?
How does it not go against some laws of thermodynamics? Maybe I’m just being silly.
In: Biology
Replying to your thermodynamics comment, diseases and medications can alter calories burned in a vacuum.
What do I mean by this?
A person with low thyroid and low testosterone will burn less calories in a day than if they didn’t have the disease.
Here’s the important part. If some one takes T3 and testosterone they will burn more calories and lose more weight than the same person without those medications eating the exact same amount of calories.
This is without any differences in appetite or calories consumed.
There’s more details you can research about how someone with higher testosterone would have more muscle and burn more calories through thermodynamics as a healthy individual than a metabolism diseased person.
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