Calorie Deficits Don't Work for Women?! | What the Fitness | Biolayne

Описание: Ah yes. Decades of randomized controlled trials must have missed that memo. This isn’t ‘man science’ this is just called f***ing science

Let’s review actual data in women:

The Diabetes Prevention Program (68% women):
• ~7% weight loss
• 150 min/week exercise
• 58% reduction in diabetes risk
• Improved insulin sensitivity

The Look AHEAD Trial (59% women):
• Calorie restriction + exercise
• Lower A1C
• Reduced medication use
• Improved cardiometabolic health

The CALORIE Trial (~70% women):
• 2 years of calorie restriction
• Improved insulin sensitivity
• Reduced oxidative stress
• No endocrine “collapse”

There is no large randomized controlled trial showing calorie deficits worsen insulin sensitivity in women.

Not one.

Does metabolic adaptation happen?
Yes, proportional to weight loss, not gender.

Does extreme dieting wreck hormones?
Sure, in men too. That’s called energy deficiency, not “man science.”

The idea that calorie deficits are uniquely harmful to women isn’t feminist.

It’s physiologically illiterate.

Women are not broken thermodynamic systems. And intermittent fasting isn’t inherently harmful for them either (PMID: 34633860)

Fat loss improves insulin sensitivity because less adipose tissue means:
↓ inflammation
↓ ectopic fat
↓ lipotoxicity
↓ insulin resistance

This applies to:
• Women with PCOS
• Postmenopausal women
• Women with prediabetes
• Women with obesity

Energy balance isn’t patriarchal. It’s biology.


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