I don’t find the fact that the Shagri-La diet only seems to work for a subset of obese people surprising at all.
It targets just one of the numerous distinct factors in obesity: excessive food reward in the diet causing the hypothalamus to reduce leptin sensitivity.
Some of the other possible causes/factors which Shagri-La does not address:
stress (high cortisol levels)
non-hunger driven binge eating
high triglycerides blocking leptin transport across the blood brain barrier
visceral fat accumulation which produces very little leptin
I don’t find the fact that the Shagri-La diet only seems to work for a subset of obese people surprising at all.
It targets just one of the numerous distinct factors in obesity: excessive food reward in the diet causing the hypothalamus to reduce leptin sensitivity.
Some of the other possible causes/factors which Shagri-La does not address:
stress (high cortisol levels)
non-hunger driven binge eating
high triglycerides blocking leptin transport across the blood brain barrier
visceral fat accumulation which produces very little leptin
viral infections (such as Human adenovirus 36)
micronutrient deficiency driving hunger