# Constrained total energy expenditure and metabolic adaptation to physical activity in adult humans

Pontzer H, Durazo-Arvizu R, Dugas LR, et al. · Current Biology 26(3):410–417 · 2016



## Key finding

Total daily energy expenditure plateaus at high activity — the 'adaptive' compensation Galpin describes.



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