[aruanan]

While this is certainly what we are taught (I have a degree in exercise physiology) it doesn’t appear to be the entire story in practice.

And I have a Ph.D. in human nutrition/nutritional physiology. It's a matter of physics: you can't have an increase in stored energy that is more than the amount of energy absorbed from food.

[fooman]

you are correct. And the folks who protest thyroid issues can have that easily fixed with synthroid or just taking kelp for the needed iodine. It works.

Sure, you will be phat if you are running around with untreated hypothyroidism.

We both take enough kelp to keep our T3 uptake around ~30 and make that our TSH is 2.5 or less and no where near 5.

[brytlea]

Then you would know that metabolisms differ (apparently) and perhaps absorption differs from individual to individual. That may account for the differences, I don’t know, since of course I don’t have a PhD. Where did you get your PhD? When I was doing my course work we didn’t have enough classes for a minor in nutrition which disappointed me greatly.

[Old Professer]

You left out the closet breatharians...