So I posted that I'd be interviewing you on my Instagram, and I got a bunch of questions,

but I'm just going to pick the one that I heard the most frequently.

Yeah.

And it was, it had to do with whether or not you can change your body fat set point.

Yes.

So let's say, for example, you're someone who has historically had around a roughly 15% to 20%

body fat.

Say you're a male. You want to dye it down and look

a little bit leaner. So say you get down to, I don't know, eight or 10%. Do you think that you can

change that set point so that you can settle into that new leaner look? Right. Okay, so sort of

just so people are kind of clear on the terminology. The idea of a set point is that the body has some set body weight or body fat that it defends.

And by defend, I mean, it tries to stay at that level, right?

They've shown this in animals for years.

Take an animal, overfeed it, metabolism goes up, and hunger goes down, and it kind of returns to its normal body weight. Underfeed it,

metabolism goes down, hunger goes up, let it have food and it kind of, it's kind of, you know,

the example I typically use is a thermostat. Thermostat, you set your temperature, that's your set

point. Go above that, AC comes on, go below that, the heat comes on. This has been somewhat of a theoretical

construct for a while. They've been arguing about this for about 30 years about whether or not it happens.

Then again, they argued about whether or not metabolic adaptation existed for about 20 years, too,

and we know now that it does. There's another concept called a settling point, which is environmental. So the idea is that if I take

someone who's been inactive and eating a crappy diet and I increase activity and fix their food,

they will eventually their body weight and body fat will come down and they'll settle at that new level.

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