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Metabolic Compensation Bypass

Meaning

Metabolic Compensation Bypass is a therapeutic strategy designed to circumvent or override the body’s ingrained, often detrimental, homeostatic resistance mechanisms that oppose sustained weight loss and metabolic improvement. During a caloric deficit, the body often reduces energy expenditure and increases hunger hormones as a protective compensatory response. A bypass intervention utilizes specific pharmacological or behavioral tools to directly override these counter-regulatory adaptations, allowing for continued, non-compensated metabolic progress.