Burn: New Research Blows the Lid Off How We Really Burn Calories, Lose Weight, and Stay Healthy

Book cover of Burn: New Research Blows the Lid Off How We Really Burn Calories, Lose Weight, and Stay Healthy by Herman Pontzerby Herman Pontzer
@HermanPontzer

One of the foremost researchers in human metabolism reveals surprising new science behind food and exercise.

We burn 2,000 calories a day. And if we exercise and cut carbs, we’ll lose more weight. Right? Wrong. In this paradigm-shifting book, Herman Pontzer reveals for the first time how human metabolism really works so that we can finally manage our weight and improve our health.

Pontzer’s groundbreaking studies with hunter-gatherer tribes show how exercise doesn’t increase our metabolism. Instead, we burn calories within a very narrow range: nearly 3,000 calories per day, no matter our activity level.

This was a brilliant evolutionary strategy to survive in times of famine. Now it seems to doom us to obesity. The good news is we can lose weight, but we need to cut calories. Refuting such weight-loss hype as paleo, keto, anti-gluten, anti-grain, and even vegan, Pontzer discusses how all diets succeed or fail: For shedding pounds, a calorie is a calorie.

At the same time, we must exercise to keep our body systems and signals functioning optimally, even if it won’t make us thinner. Hunter-gatherers like the Hadza move about five hours a day and remain remarkably healthy into old age. But elite athletes can push the body too far, burning calories faster than their bodies can take them in. It may be that the most spectacular athletic feats are the result not just of great training, but of an astonishingly efficient digestive system.

Revealing, irreverent, and always entertaining, Pontzer has written a book that will change how you eat, move, and live.
Show more
Show less

Interview with the Author

Podcast art for Impact Theory with Tom BilyeuImpact Theory with Tom Bilyeu 
Everything You Know About NUTRITION is WRONG! Here’s Why | Herman Pontzer
10/21/21           59 min

Podcast art for Why is This Happening? with Chris HayesWhy Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast 
Energy and Evolution with Herman Pontzer
6/8/21            47 min

Podcast art for Clear+Vivid with Alan AldaClear+Vivid with Alan Alda 
Herman Pontzer: Burn Those Calories Better
6/28/21            38 min

Podcast art for Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New YorkLeonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York 
metabolism expert Dr. Herman Pontzer discusses his book Burn about how to really lose weight
3/12/21           55 min

Podcast Art of the Art of Manliness PodcastThe Art of Manliness
The New Science of Metabolism and Weight Loss
4/11/22           50 min

Buy on Amazon

Related books

Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Explot Our Addictions Feasting Wild: In Search of the Last Untamed Food Book cover of The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name by Brian MurareskuThe Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name Book cover of Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America by Eyal PressDirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America Book cover of The Bourbon King: The Life and Crimes of George Remus, Prohibition's Evil Genius by Bob BatchelorThe Bourbon King: The Life and Crimes of George Remus, Prohibition’s Evil Genius 

Be the first to comment

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published.


*