As of my current understanding, you need calories to get fat, how can some hormonal issues lead to weight gain? Where does all the energy comes from?
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Hormones make you hungrier, so there’s your “calories in.” Hormones make you crave more calorie dense options. Do you really think your willpower is more powerful than the body’s unconscious evolutionary mechanisms to maintain homeostasis, given an effectively unlimited supply of ultraprocessed foods? How arrogant of you.
Hormones also affect the “calories out” part of the equation, arguably to a greater extent. They affect your base metabolic rate. They affect your non-exercise activity thermogenesis (a.k.a. NEAT), with a death by a thousand cuts. Hormones make you fidget less or not pace while on the phone due to hormones. You might become more lethargic and do fewer chores. You can become winded more easily in a workout.
Put it another way: everyone knows amphetamines, Ozempic, and cigarettes keep you thin. It’s also well established that certain psychiatric medications cause obesity for the vast majority of patients. Nobody with a lick of common sense argues that drugs can’t affect your weight. So why are “hormones” any different? Because they’re natural? Opium is natural too, you silly hippie.
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