Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Dr Seyfried Ep 2 | The Evolutionary Reason We Store Fat

7 Sept 2024 · 0 min

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A short transcript excerpt from a YouTube video (Dr Seyfried Ep 2) explaining that storing energy as fat is an evolved biological adaptation essential for human survival; modern food abundance (e.g., fast food, ubiquitous snacks) interacts with this adaptation to drive obesity. The speaker frames contemporary obesity as evolutionarily expected given plentiful caloric environments.

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