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If you didn't use energy, you would not need to breath: breath is driven by the CO2 accumulation and the CO2 is a byproduct of the body extracting energy from organic matter. And if you believe you use energy but very little compared to the lucky individuals with god-like metabolism then you would be able to breath very infrequently (and your heart rate would also be low) compared to them.

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This is a very surface-level and primitive analysis. Of course the amount of energy you use varies based off of your activities and the state of your body. Never did I say I used "zero energy", you're fighting ghosts here.

Rather, my point was simple: calories-in and calories-out is correct, but the mistake evangelists of this ideology make is assuming calories-out is fixed or even a simple equation. It's not, and this is what pushes your narrative from "science" to "ideology".

>Never did I say I used "zero energy"

Indeed, you said this instead:

>There are a plethora of conditions that cause your body and to not use energy

Now, grammatically it makes no sense, but I thought "and" was just a typo and then sentence read as: "There are a plethora of conditions that cause your body to not use energy" to witch I responded.

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