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         Your Muscles Are Talking to Your Fat And the        Conversation Changes Everything For decades, the prevailing understanding of how exercise produces weight loss was straightforward: exercise burns calories, the caloric expenditure creates a deficit, and the deficit forces the body to draw on stored fat for fuel. Simple, mechanical, and essentially complete as an explanation. Except that it is not complete. Not even close. If the caloric expenditure of exercise were the primary mechanism through which it affects body weight and fat mass, then exercise and dietary caloric restriction producing equivalent deficits would produce identical weight loss outcomes. They do not. Exercise produces a range of metabolic, hormonal, and neurological benefits that equivalent dietary caloric restriction cannot replicate, benefits that include appetite suppression, enhanced fat oxidation, improved insulin sensitivity, reduced visceral fat, in...