My husband, Andrew Rettek, has a blog you should read. As he's gotten into fitness, he's started following exercise science, which is the (very new!) field of running small controlled experiments on diet and exercise on athletes who do exactly what you tell them to, under strict observation.

This is in contrast to fields like nutrition science, which study the effect of the “intervention” of telling people (usually non-athletes) what diets and exercise programs to follow. Exercise science tends to have much smaller sample sizes, but it can come to more unambiguous conclusions because it's testing the intervention itself, not people's ability or willingness to follow it. Contra the “nobody knows anything about diet or exercise” conventional wisdom, we do know some things! It's just…not very many things. And only about college athletes.

One surprising thing Andrew noticed is that organ size, especially liver size, has a [...]

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(01:13) Larger Athletes’ Higher RMR is Partly From Bigger Livers

(04:10) Causality? Looks Like Yes: More Protein = More Liver

(06:47) What Else Grows Livers?

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