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Brain's Weight Switch Found: May Let Us Eat What We Want, Finally
(neurosciencenews.com)
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But where does all the excess energy go? You can't cheat basic physics
You just don't digest as much nor store as much calories. So your feces and urine, as well as exhalation.
It's not cheating basic physics, there's just a lot of misunderstanding about how weight works in biology. Cico is not what many people believe it to be.
Absorbed calories in spent calories out would be more accurate, but nobody wants to do the more complicated math.
And some processes can technically be calorie neutral and still affect weight (like say how much water we hold)