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BMI uses an exponent of 2, for physical reasons it needs to be around that value, but the "correct" value might be different; it appears that GP believes it should be higher.

The point about body builders is that BMI as a metric assumes a fixed muscular profile, so doing (an healthy amount of) muscle training can wildly affect your BMI independently of your fatness.

If is still likely a good measure at a population level as very few people that have BMI > 30 are also fit. But you need to contextualize it to your own case.

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To be more precise, my problem with this study is when you select for people with BMI>30 and filter for those who do not have obesity related health issues, you’re going to have a lot more of the pathological case, like body builders, tall folks who are overweight but not obese, etc.