I dive into one of the most engaging series of studies I have ever come across.
Everyone can lose weight by eating less food. Everybody can be thinly starving. However, hunger is rarely sustainable as hunger drives us to eat. We feel unhappy and unfamiliar with low-calorie diets. Of course, there is some voluntary control, but in the end, a deep-sitting instinctive drive could win.
For example, you can consciously hold your breath. Try it now. How long can you spend until your body’s self-preservation mechanism takes over and overwhelms your intentional intent to not breathe? Our bodies are at our heart’s peak interest, and are so intelligent that we cannot suffocate ourselves. But if our bodies are really that smart, how can we become obese? Why don’t our bodies notice when we are too heavy and allow us to have room? Maybe our bodies are very knowing and actively trying to help, but we somehow undermine those efforts. How can you test this theory to see if it is true?
So many variables will result in us choosing what we eat and how much. “The feeding process involves a complex mixture of physiological, psychological, cultural and aesthetic considerations.” Researchers at Columbia University designed a series of well-known experiments using “food distribution devices” to strip everything away and stick to physiological variables. The term “food” is used very loosely here. As you can see at 2:02 on my video 200 pound weight loss, the researcher’s feeder was a tube connected to a pump that filled the mouth with a fluid-filled version of the button every time it pressed. Study participants were instructed to eat at any time as they wanted. In this way, the meal was reduced to only a rudimentary hungry drive. How much do “sociality,” meal ceremonies, and normal traps of palate pleasure drive people to eat?
Putting an ordinary person in this scenario, something amazing happens. Every day, every week, it’s just a hunger to lead them, they eat as much as they need, maintain their weight perfectly, and in my video I’ll keep them at 2:36.
They needed about 3,000 calories a day, but that’s the amount they unconsciously gave themselves. In my video, as seen here and at 2:48, their bodies seemed to intuitively know how many times they press that button.
Putting obese people in the same scenario, something even more noteworthy happens. Driving alone with hunger, enjoying eating, they sang roughly, giving them only 275 calories a day. They could eat as much as they wanted, but they were not just hungry. It dialed their natural hunger drive to almost nothing, as if they knew how overweight their bodies were. One participant began the study at 400 pounds and lost steadily. While sipping on the bland liquid for 252 days, he lost 200 pounds, as you can see on my video at 3:35.
This groundbreaking discovery was initially interpreted to mean that obesity was not caused by any metabolic disorder that would cause people to eat too much. In fact, this study suggested the exact opposite. Instead, overeating appeared to be a function of the meaning associated with food, “with the exception of its use as a fuel,” either as a source of pleasure or as a relief from boredom and stress. In this way, obesity seemed more psychological than physical. However, subsequent experiments in the feeder have once again turned such a concept into their heads.
When the researchers secretly doubled the calorie concentration of the formula given to Lean study participants, they unconsciously reduced their consumption by half in order to continue to maintain their weight perfectly, as seen in my video. Their bodies somehow detected changes in calorie load, signaled them to the brain, and pressed the button half frequency to compensate. wonderful!
But when the same thing happened with obese people, nothing changed. They continued to underestimate it as dramatically as before. Their bodies appear to be unable to detect or respond to changes in calorie load, suggesting that they cannot physiologically regulate their intake, as shown at 4:40 in my video. 
Is the brain of an obese person somehow insensitive to internal satiety signals? I don’t know if that’s the cause or the effect. That may be why they are obese in the first place. Alternatively, your body may know how obese it is and block the drive of hungry regardless of calorie concentration. In fact, obese participants continued to steadily lose weight from the machine despite calorie concentrations and food preparations. 
Once they reach their ideal weight, it will be interesting to see if they have regained their ability to respond to changes in their calorie intake. Anyway, what can we apply from these amazing studies to promote weight loss in the real world? Next, I will explore only that question.
