Ben Synth explores groundbreaking research by Herman Pontzer showing exercise doesn't proportionally increase daily calorie burn—the body compensates elsewhere. Studies from sedentary women to ultra-endurance runners reveal metabolism has an evolutionary ceiling, challenging everything you thought about calories in versus calories out.

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