[JamesBarney]

I don't know if I'd call a veterinary anaesthetist a foremost expert on fat metabolism. His thoughts on insulin signaling are not consistent with the consensus among obesity researchers. He thinks glp-1 works through uncoupling or fat browning which is just not true.

The consensus among most obesity researchers is the cause of obesity is primarily neurological, not metabolic. Basically the brain can't properly regulate weight in the current obesogenic environment. When you look at GWAS most of the genes related to obesity are active in the brain, (as opposed to genes for diabetes which are more closely related to fat/metabolism etc...).

I'd describe Petro Dobromylskyj as a smart hobbyist with an outsiders views of obesity, not a foremost expert on fat metabolism.

[givemeethekeys]

Is human metabolism really so different from other mammalian metabolism?

[jessriedel]

1. If the expert consensus is that the cause is neurological rather than metabolic, it seems more important to not that human neurology really is so different than other mammalian neurology.

2. Clinical anesthesiology is pretty far from this topic.

[sarchertech]

The only published paper I can find by him is on small animal ventilation, so I don’t think he’s a “foremost expert” on fat metabolism in animals either.

[computing]

yes. yes it is.

[jononomo]

He is basically the world's leading expert, but you can only see credentials, lol.

[refurb]

World leading experts usually have an impressive publishing record in the field, often a top academic research position and a long record of speaking at important global conferences on the area.

Does he have all those? I'm honestly asking, I've never heard of him.

[jononomo]

Hey, you basically worship credentials, so you're not going to be impressed with a person who doesn't have them regardless of their breadth and depth of knowledge. I don't know what to tell you.

[refurb]

That’s not credentials, that recognition by others of expertise in a field.

[sarchertech]

No he doesn’t.

[wolverine876]

What makes this person the world's leading expert?

[jononomo]

depth and breadth of knowledge and deep curiosity and persistence.

[wolverine876]

Many in the middle ages used those qualities to spend lifetimes investigating alchemy and witchcraft.