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Everything you Need to Know About Basal Metabolic Rate

·1 hr 31 min·9 clips
Greg explains how your heart, liver, kidneys, and brain account for half your BMR despite being only 5% of your body mass.
Greg Knuckles hosts solo to discuss basal metabolic rate (BMR), explaining that organ mass is the key determinant, not just body composition. He covers inaccuracies in BMR prediction equations, sex and age differences, and how weight loss and gain affect BMR, with a focus on athletes' elevated BMR due to organ adaptations.

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Greg Knuckles shows why BMR estimates can be useful and still miss in ways the usual inputs cannot explain.

Greg Knuckles uses the episode to work through the gap between the neat BMR number people want and the messier physiology underneath it. The main point lands clearly: prediction equations can miss because the organs that drive metabolic rate vary in ways height, weight, age,…

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If you want the messy reasons BMR predictions miss, this is the one.

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