This is a YouTube video titled "Metabolic damage - Myth or reality" containing a monologue or single-speaker discussion from August 6, 2023, explaining how very low calorie and nutrient-poor diets can cause metabolic adaptations. The speaker discusses the concept of metabolic damage as an adaptation to prolonged low calorie intake.
So it's when we get into these super rigid approaches, you know, very low calorie diets, like very nutrient poor diets, where we're no longer providing the vitamins and minerals that our body needs to produce these energy levels and function our immune system and our brain and all these things, you know, things like this, the metabolism is going to adapt and react to that. So if we've got a metabolism that slowed down over time to counterbalance the fact that you haven't eaten more than 1100 calories in the last few years, then, yeah, I guess we could call that metabolic damage. But essentially, that's just an adaptation that you forced onto it. Right. So, yes, those things can happen. And it's been studied. Right. And.
