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[–] Mac@mander.xyz 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You can't convince me of free energy

NICE TRY SCIENTOLOGY

[–] jaycifer@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There was a Kurzgesat video about this a couple weeks ago. Apparently if you don’t spend calories exercising/biking, your body will find other ways to burn it like increasing your immune system activity (which can have poor long-term effects). There’s an adjustment period when you do start exercising where energy is still spent on sedentary things and the actual exercise before the former is reduced to mostly match the latter.

I have also read that regular exercise can lead to an increase of base metabolic rate by ~5% though, which is like an extra 100 calories per day.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You should always doublecheck Kurzgesagt videos, btw.
They're not a good sole source due to being heavily simplified (they know this and often provide further reading (you probably also know this (just commenting anyway for general visibility (this should be considered good practice tbh (to be honest)))))

[–] jaycifer@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I started taking Kurzgesagt videos with a grain of salt a while ago, hence the “apparently.” Their explanation just fit NoName’s assertion pretty well. Never bad to make the possibility of being wrong explicit though!

[–] CorvidCawder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

Seems like a potential circular reference though, judging from how popular Kurzgesagt videos are.