Dr.Martinez said:Genuine plateaus happen too, and the mechanism is metabolic adaptation plus a smaller body.
That reframing is the part I needed. I will report back once I have actually tried it.
Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either. Those three things can all be true at once, and most arguments here are two people holding different parts of that.
That is the short version; the long version is somebody else's post.
Dr.PulmRoch said:The useful move here is to separate what is established from what is widely repeated.
Pushing back on Dr.PulmRoch here. Pushing back on the anecdote-stacking. Twenty people reporting the same thing is twenty samples from the same self-selected pool, not twenty independent confirmations.
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