My takeaway from the article was that, to your point, their brains weren’t using more energy. Rather, the best hypothesis was just that their adrenal hormones remained elevated for many hours of the day, leading to higher metabolism during that period. Running an hour a day is definitely not enough to burn 6000 calories for the record (a marathon burns around 3500).
Maybe I wasn’t clear, but that’s what I meant by the following.
The article’s claiming that chess players burn more energy purely from the side effects of stress, not because their brains are doing more work. So why am I revisiting this question?
Got it! then I agree with you. I think that a best description of my point would be that yeah, these guys are not burning calories by thinking better or harder. Their exercise plus the higher stress environment could account alone for their high amount burn of calories.
My takeaway from the article was that, to your point, their brains weren’t using more energy. Rather, the best hypothesis was just that their adrenal hormones remained elevated for many hours of the day, leading to higher metabolism during that period. Running an hour a day is definitely not enough to burn 6000 calories for the record (a marathon burns around 3500).
Maybe I wasn’t clear, but that’s what I meant by the following.
Got it! then I agree with you. I think that a best description of my point would be that yeah, these guys are not burning calories by thinking better or harder. Their exercise plus the higher stress environment could account alone for their high amount burn of calories.