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The Great Calorie Plot Twist: Why Your Friend Might Get More Energy From the Same Sandwich

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Two people can absorb different calories from the same meal Not Everyone Gets the Same Amount of Calories From Food. Here’s Why Contact the Show: coolstuffdailypodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:56.9

I'm Zach Morris.

0:58.2

Today's show will be about science reminding us how the human body is far more complicated

1:02.4

and way more interesting than the back of a nutrition label.

1:06.2

Today's story starts with a simple question.

1:08.3

If two people eat the same exact meal, do they absorb the exact

1:11.8

number of calories? For more than a century, most of us have assumed the answer was yes.

1:16.7

Turns out, not necessarily. Imagine two people sitting down to identical lunches, same sandwich,

1:23.1

same chips, and the same cookie. Common sense would say both people are getting the same amounts of

1:27.6

energy from that meal. But researchers now say the answer is much messier because digestion is not

1:33.5

just about you, it's about the trillions of microscopic roommates living inside your gut.

1:38.9

Scientists at Arizona State University developed a new mathematical model called D-A-M, short for digestion, absorption,

1:47.1

and microbial metabolism.

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