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Part of me wonders if you could have a weight loss clinic that's just a drug that puts people into a medical coma while raising their metabolism and then just keeping them in homeostasis until the weight eventually just sweats out of their system.
Fun fact: when loosing weight, you actually breathe the weight off. Fat is “burned” by your cells and the byproducts are transferred, via your bloodstream, to your lungs where you exhaust them.
Would the coma idea work though? I feel like it'd be an incredibly intensive process but for people willing to miss the time it'd probably be a godsend, go to sleep, wake up at a healthy weight and with a backlog of news to catch up on.
Just need to input fewer calories than you use. A body at rest still uses calories to maintain basic life. So just keep them hydrated and add certain nutrients that aren’t in stored fat. Unfortunately your body can also use muscle as stored energy. If you are inactive, it will burn muscle more than you’d like. It’s expensive to keep around. So if you’re on starvation diet and not using them. No reason to keep them. The body burns them up. So in the end you’ll be lighter, but also extremely weak. The effort of rehabilitation may be as bad as trying to exercise and diet not in a coma.
Well then it sounds like all you gotta do to get it off the ground is figure out a way to prevent the body from metabolizing muscle tissue
Keep using it. On a more serious note, if you were in s medical coma for something like this, I suppose electrical simulation of the muscles could be done. Idk, not a mad scientist treating rich obese people.
Lol, I'm just picturing all those YouTube videos of dancing frog legs
Exactly! Not a freaky place to work at all. Nope.
That's called exercise.
In a medical coma though?
The biggest issue would be muscle atrophy. Even if you're pretty sedentary, your muscles are doing a lot of work each day just to move you around. Being bedridden for even a few days can cause muscle loss. You also increase the risk of blood clots and bed sores.
Medically induced comas also come with risk of permanent injury or death, so they really only do them in absolute emergencies.
And lastly, there are already surgeries and medications for weight loss that work much faster. The issue is, without matching lifestyle changes, all that weight will just come back.
i think some rich people this already? but they have to do it overseas because its illegal
This is such a versatile comment that fits a lot of different contexts. Wonderful!
hahaha