Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Dr Amie Hornaman | The Hidden Dangers of Extreme Dieting

13 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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This YouTube video features Dr. Amie Hornaman (uploaded by Aaron Hartman, MD) explaining how extreme dieting and caloric deprivation cause the body to conserve energy by slowing metabolism, prioritizing vital functions over non-essential ones (e.g., hair growth), which can lead to hair loss and paradoxical fat storage during severe deprivation.

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It's a great thing. But the same thing happens when we are calorically deprived, when we're doing these crazy diets, when we're doing crazy fasting is our body goes. Yes, there is not enough of anything going on in your body to, to, to do the necessary day to day processes. So why don't we conserve, let's conserve energy. Let's shut down metabolism first and foremost. And oh yeah, she doesn't need to grow her hair either. Forget that. Like hair can fall out, it can go to straw. That doesn't matter, doesn't need to burn fat. And so you end up storing body fat on your body because you're in this severe deprivation.