Calcium, calcitriol, phosphates

The mechanisms behind America's obesity epidemic.

For years, I chased the truth behind obesity. It wasn’t calories. It wasn’t carbs. It wasn’t laziness, willpower, or macros. I peeled away every layer, burned through every model. And then someone handed me a single word — calcium. That was the signal. Not sugar. Not insulin. Not even seed oils.
This led me to another chemical, one could say it was the opposite of calcium, one that binds to it, one that requires a balance within the body or it causes chaos. A flavorless chemical in your soda, injected into your meat, buried in your “healthy” food. Phosphate is the storage command. You didn’t eat too much food. Your body was told to hold on.

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The Great Diversion - CICO and Sugar Were a Smokescreen

The calorie model of obesity has persisted not because it holds explanatory power, but because it absolves the system and indicts the individual. It frames metabolic failure as a moral one, as if decades of fat accumulation could be reduced to arithmetic, and as if the obese body simply forgot how to subtract. But the human organism is not a passive container. It does not store energy unless given a biochemical instruction to do so. That instruction is not a surplus of food — it is a signal, embedded chemically, that overrides both energy status and behavioral input.

What the calorie model refuses to address is that obesity persists in people who eat less. It persists in fasting. It persists in caloric deficit. It persists in effort. And the reason is simple: none of those factors interrupt the metabolic signal that says, “store.” This signal is not psychological. It is not lifestyle. It is not personal failure. It is biochemical, and it is mechanical. As long as that signal remains active, fat will not be released, regardless of how aggressively one attempts to burn it.