But it does raise the question how to get a better deal out of how and when we eat. More in tune with out particular metabolism, etc.
Personally, I’m trying to deal with my food at the intestinal flora level. And it is something of a challenge.
To start with, the better the bacteria are at digesting, the more nutrition you get from your food. And some bacteria are known to contribute to weight gain, others to weight loss. But there’s another twist.
Archaea look like bacteria, but aren’t. And they don’t eat what bacteria eat, either. But they do eat bacterial waste gases, that can inhibit bacteria. So indirectly they make it so that bacteria can increase the amount of nutrition we get from our food.
The bacteria genus Enterobacter in particular, are known to cause weight gain. And making things worse for obese people, instead of having 30-40 types of dominant intestinal flora bacteria, about a third of all the bacteria in their gut are Enterobacter.
Indeed it does, and I suspect the answer is slightly different for each and every one of us.