Why can’t you be healthy with super low body fat %, let’s say 2%? If the body still gets energy through metabolism, I don’t see how there’s a problem.

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Why can’t you be healthy with super low body fat %, let’s say 2%? If the body still gets energy through metabolism, I don’t see how there’s a problem.

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There are vitamins which can only be absorbed by fat, so if you don’t have enough fat, you don’t absorb enough of those vitamins. In addition there’s a correlation between low body fat and increased heart disease and lowered immune response. I don’t know enough about it to explain why so I only called it a correlation but for all I know the experts could explain a direct causation.