Alan Aragon

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1,513 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard Aug 2025 last heard 27 Mar

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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · Fat Burning Expert: The Real Reason You Can’t Lose Weight! PCOS, Menopause & Stubborn Belly Fat · 25 Aug 2025 podcast

Almost everybody who has been overweight or obese or just had some degree of an issue with their body fat levels, almost all of them under-consume protein.

Yeah, that is the, in quotes, hard gainer phenomenon.

And people will have different degrees of body fat in that category.

But these folks, what they actually have an issue with is a spontaneous increase in what we call non-exercise activity thermogenesis.

So basically, it's an increase in spontaneous movement.

Just an increase in fidgeting, tapping, moving around, just being more hyperkinetic in response to increasing their caloric intake.

In 24 hours, you and I expend X amount of calories.

So total daily energy expenditure –

is composed of various components.

So there is a resting energy expenditure component.

So our so-called resting metabolic rate, or it's also called resting energy expenditure or basal metabolic rate.

Those are all interchangeable.

That is the amount of calories that your body burns in a 24-hour period just to stay alive.

Okay, so if you were bedridden, the amount of calories you burn just through your vital organs and your systems working,

That's your resting energy expenditure.

Now, the other part of energy expenditure is your active energy expenditure.

So active energy expenditure consists of, we can subdivide it into your exercise activity and your non-exercise activity.

With hard gainers, it's their non-exercise activity that spontaneously goes up when they try to eat more to gain weight.

There's an interesting study done in the late 1990s by Levine and colleagues where he took a group of normal weight subjects, it was a mostly male sample of subjects, and he fed them

1,000 calories above and beyond their maintenance requirements.

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