Evolutionary Anthropology (METABOLISM) with Herman Pontzer

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Alie Ward

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🗓️ 31 January 2024

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Let’s debunk some “dieting” myths by exploring our human machinery. And talk about Brazilian butt lifts. Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology and metabolism researcher Dr. Herman Pontzer gives us the data on mitochondrial backstories, muscle mass and hormones, our expanding brains, the flaws of the Body Mass Index, humans’ relationships with nutrition, why crash dieting can change your metabolism, perspectives on sticky medical terms, isotope magic, how much exercise hunter gatherers get, carnivore diets, scales, and what to do if you're grappling with sadness. Content warning: we discuss diet culture, calories, how the word “obesity” is used, medical conditions that may relate to body composition, and highlight listeners’ lived experiences.

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0:00.0	Oh, hey, it's that cardigan that you left in an ober,
0:02.8	alley ward, here with an episode about our squishy, juicy machines
0:07.2	and how they run.
0:08.6	So I've wanted to interview this guy, I know I say this
0:10.9	like every episode, but for years, so we're going to dive into it
0:13.8	metabolism how do they work what's up who am I what's going on in there so this guy
0:19.5	did his undergrad work in anthropology got a PhD from Harvard University in biological anthropology,
0:27.1	and has been a professor of anthropology for nearly 20 years, during which time he's been an associate research professor of global health
0:35.2	at Duke Global Health Institute and he's now a professor of evolutionary
0:39.2	anthropology at Duke University. He knows what's up. His CV is 23 pages long. I was like looking through his list of papers. It gave me actual vertigo.
0:50.0	And then I found out we're the same age and I don't like to think about it.
0:53.3	He's also written several books, including the 2021 release,
0:57.4	Burn.
0:58.1	New research blows the lid off how we really burn calories, lose weight,
1:02.2	and stay healthy.
1:03.1	And yes, we're gonna address the science
1:05.2	and the culture of all of it.
1:06.6	And also just a quick warning, we do discuss, of course,
1:09.1	calories, some diet culture in this episode,
1:12.0	as well as weaponized language we discuss all of that just so you know
1:16.1	but first just some thank yous to patrons of ologies at patreon.com slash ologies who spend one burning hot dollar a month to join and they can submit
1:26.8	questions to ologists before we record.
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