Elon and Vivek share their plans to reduce the federal bureaucracy, Bitcoin’s price approaches $100,000, and a recent study offers an explanation for why it’s difficult to maintain weight loss
The findings are intriguing! However, I suspect they won’t hold up under broader scrutiny. First, the human samples were taken from individuals who lost weight through bariatric surgery, not through GLP-1 treatments or sustained changes in behavior and diet, which could lead to different epigenetic outcomes. Second, the mouse samples were collected just weeks after a diet change, arguably too early to observe longer-term epigenetic adaptations driven by consistent behavioral shifts. Epigenetic markers are dynamic and likely reflect sustained behavior over time—this study’s design may simply have been insufficient to reveal that.
The findings are intriguing! However, I suspect they won’t hold up under broader scrutiny. First, the human samples were taken from individuals who lost weight through bariatric surgery, not through GLP-1 treatments or sustained changes in behavior and diet, which could lead to different epigenetic outcomes. Second, the mouse samples were collected just weeks after a diet change, arguably too early to observe longer-term epigenetic adaptations driven by consistent behavioral shifts. Epigenetic markers are dynamic and likely reflect sustained behavior over time—this study’s design may simply have been insufficient to reveal that.
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