If you look in the dictionary for "opposite of athlete" you will be directed to "bookworm," and there will be a picture of ME.

In other words, I'm an ordinary person with no pretense of athleticism, and a solid decade of trying to lose weight with exercise in back of me.

Since the beginning of this year, I have lost 25 pounds without being hungry ONCE. And very low exercise, because I was sick.

When they explain how this will kill me, I will take them more seriously.

And for all we know, cortisol increased higher and then decreased lower because maybe the hormones are more responsive. It's tricky to measure, and I don't see any elaboration on it.

But I will tell you this: since going keto, I have stopped taking exogenous biological hormone supplementation. And I've never felt better. Something has started my hormone production up again.