# Herman Pontzer

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Civic Media Spotlight (Hour 1)

Herman Pontzer, a professor at Duke University, joins Pete and Greg on Nite Lite to talk about his book Adaptable and how our bodies really use energy. He gets into the science of metabolism and clears up some of the biggest myths around exercise and weight loss. The conversation keeps going as Pon…

The Wall For Human Exertion

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/U3NkNIovZkc Despite the almost superhuman feats of athletic prowess displayed in marathons, Iron person contests, and the Tour De France, a new study from Duke University just published in the journal Scientific Advances suggests that that the human body has physical lim…

Herman Pontzer (on evolutionary anthropology)

Herman Pontzer (Adaptable: How Your Unique Body Works and Why Our Biology Unites Us) is an evolutionary anthropologist, author, and associate professor at Duke University. Herman joins the Armchair Expert to discuss growing up at the end of a dirt road in a house his dad built, unpacking the dark h…

The Foundations of a Happier Life, Part 1 | Ep. 10

In this episode, Hannah and Amy kick off a two-part series on foundational routines, the things we do in daily life that quietly support everything else, including our executive function, our mood, and our ability to show up as the people we want to be. This is part one, covering sleep and movement…

From 34% To 6% Body Fat: Weight Was Never My Problem | Jesse Chappus #1372

What if losing weight isn't the first step to getting healthy? In this episode, Ben joins Jesse Chappus to challenge the idea that excess weight is the root problem. Ben explains why he sees weight as a symptom of deeper metabolic dysfunction and shares the approach that helped him lose 80 pounds …

80s Diet Baggage & Midlife Metabolism Myths with Sue Page, MNU

In this episode of The FxCK YOU 50s, host Andrea Claire sits down with  pink-haired midlife baddie Sue Page—an MNU Certified Nutritionist, nutrition coach, with absolute zero tolerance for nutrition BS. If you’ve been told that your metabolism automatically crashed the second you hit perimenopause…

Herman Pontzer (on evolutionary anthropology)

Herman Pontzer (Adaptable: How Your Unique Body Works and Why Our Biology Unites Us) is an evolutionary anthropologist, author, and associate professor at Duke University. Herman joins the Armchair Expert to discuss growing up at the end of a dirt road in a house his dad built, unpacking the dark h…

EPISODE 42: Your Metabolism Didn't Break: Hormones, GLP-1s & Peptides with Sharon Lemoine, ARNP

Sharon Lemoine has spent 30 years in healthcare, 25 of them in emergency medicine. She's also a Type 1 diabetic and a thyroid cancer survivor, and she went through surgical menopause. She's made high-stakes medical decisions from both sides of the exam table. Now she runs a practice prescribing hor…

EPISODE 43: The Energy Constraint Model

Why do so many people add more cardio and still stop losing fat? We break down Duke researcher Herman Pontzer’s constrained energy model — the Hadza hunter-gatherer findings, the energy “budget” your body defends, and where the burned calories quietly get clawed back. Then we get practical: why str…

What Exercise Does (And Doesn't Do) For Your Metabolism with Evolutionary Anthropologist Herman Pontzer

Herman Pontzer is a professor of evolutionary anthropology and global health at Duke University, a leading researcher on human energy metabolism, and the author of Burn and Adaptable. In this conversation, Zoe and Brendan ask Herman whether anyone should genetically test a four-year-old for sprint…