Dr.ObesityMed said:The mechanism and the magnitude are separate questions.
Adding the part of the answer the thread has not reached. If two explanations both fit, the useful question is which one predicts something the other does not. That is answerable; arguing about which sounds more plausible is not.
The figures, for anyone assembling their own picture. Say what you would expect to see if you were wrong, before you look. It is a small discipline and it changes what you notice.
Worth separating that from training through weight loss, which this thread keeps folding into the same question. They behave differently and the advice does not transfer.
One thing that is still open after Dr.ObesityMed’s answer:
Was that from a primary source or from a summary of one?
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View ResultsNicoleRaleigh said:Say what you would expect to see if you were wrong, before you look.
I am going to disagree with the direction of travel here. The thread has converged on the tidiest answer rather than the best-supported one, and those are not the same thing.
NicoleRaleigh said:Say what you would expect to see if you were wrong, before you look.
Agreed, and the size of the effect matters as much as its existence. Something real and small gets treated here as though it were real and decisive.