FAQ – Body Type Science Theory

FAQ #2 – What are Current Mainstream Science and Medical Doctors Body Type Standards?

When you go to have your regular doctor checkup, these are the recognized three medical/scientific body type standards by which you are being held to determine whether or not you are healthy & “normal”.

Standard #1: The Standard Scientific Human Body Anatomy Book Body Type One (BT1), AKA the genetic scientific Standard Body Type One (BT1) – unless you have been diagnosed with a specific abnormality, deformation, or underdevelopment by your doctor (and even then, you are still a Standard Body Type One/BT1 only with a specific diagnosis), according to mainstream scientists and medical doctors, once you are within your safe Standard BMI you are a Standard BT1, and the only reason you do not look like a Body Type One (BT1) is because you are consistently eating too many calories above your daily Standard BMR which is causing you to be outside your safe Standard BMI in the overweight or obese (too much fat on the body) columns. Yet, there are countless people in the world who are within safe BMI who deal with some form(s) of skinny fat (including normal weight obesity, defined as having too much fat on your body even when within safe BMI) and do not look like the BT1. 

Standard #2: Body Mass Index (BMI), Standard BMI (Height & Weight)

Standard #3: Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR), Standard BMR – the bare minimum number of calories your body requires for basic survival functioning each day.

FAQ #3 – Why are Current Mainstream Science and Medical Doctor’s Body Type Standards Inaccurate?

Standard #1: The Standard Scientific Human Body Anatomy Book Body Type One (BT1), genetic scientific Standard Body Type One (BT1) is not accurate because, genetically, it is a fact that any part of the human body can be underdeveloped or undeveloped, to whatever degree. Skinny fat is real and exists in place of where there should be muscles/mass. The Standard BT1 fails to account for skinny fat and excess genetic default muscle mass, no less.

Standard #2: Body Mass Index (BMI), Standard BMI is not accurate because, genetically, skinny fat is real and exists in place of where there should be muscles/mass. The Standard BMI does not account for skinny fat. As well, it is possible to have excess muscle mass (either excess genetic default muscle mass and/or excess added muscle mass via resistance training like weightlifting, calisthenics, or isometrics) on your body which would put you into the overweight or obese column of your BMI weight range, but because you do not have excess regular fat/too much regular fat on your body, you are not overweight or obese.

Standard #3: Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR), Standard BMR is not accurate because, metabolically, the scientifically calculated standard Mifflin St Jeor equation and Harris-Benedict equation for activity do not take into account skinny fat, no less. Science recognizes that one pound of muscle burns 6 calories daily, but one pound of regular fat and/or skinny fat only burns two to three calories per day, which directly affects metabolism, notably Standard BMR. The more skinny fat you have on your body, the more prone you are to putting on regular fat, and the more negatively your metabolism is affected (regular fat and skinny fat burn fewer calories than muscle), the less accurate your BMR calculations are, and thus the fewer calories your body actually needs daily.

Body Type Science is working to strengthen these three Standards to make them more accurate.

FAQ #4 – What is Skinny Fat? 

Only recognized by science in the last decade or so, skinny fat is defined as having too much fat on your body even when within safe Standard BMI (18.5 to 24.99) — AKA normal weight obesity (NWO). According to the Standard BMI definition, once you are within safe Standard BMI you no longer have any excess regular fat (white fat/yellow fat) on your body. Being NWO/skinny fat directly contradicts the Standard BMI definition and is technically impossible.

So, how is it possible to be within Safe Standard BMI and still have too much fat on your body?

It is possible because the excess fat you are experiencing is not excess regular white/yellow fat, it is one or more of the other 5 types of skinny fat which include cellulite and thin fat (the main 2 tissue types) along with loose skin, saggy skin, and crepey skin. The latter three are most common after extreme regular fat weight loss which makes thin fat and/or cellulite worse. There are 6 total types of skinny fat.

Skinny Fat Tissue – Thin Fat and Cellulite

Regular white/yellow fat is unique tissue. Muscle is unique tissue.

We know cellulite skinny fat is unique fibrous tissue. Globally, 80%+ women have cellulite and 0% have ever gotten rid of it. At present, there is no FDA-approved way to get rid of cellulite, you can only reduce it. Although skinny fat science is young and evolving and we are not sure what kind of tissue thin fat skinny fat is, we do know thin fat is not muscle tissue or regular white/yellow fat tissue.

You can technically lose 100% of your regular fat yet your skinny fat — thin fat or cellulite — will remain. Regular fat and skinny fat are not the same; they are two different tissues. You cannot turn regular fat into skinny fat or vice versa. Can thin fat turn into cellulite or vice versa, more scientific research is needed.

But there is no doubt that it is not possible to turn muscle tissue into fat tissue, any more than it is to turn fat tissue into muscle tissue. Fat cells and muscle cells are different structures and are not interchangeable. Muscle does not “turn into fat.” There is no process in the human body by which muscle – which is made up of mainly protein, amino acids, and water – transforms itself into any kind of fat (adipose tissue), be it regular fat, brown fat, beige fat, or skinny fat (if, indeed, it is a kind of adipose tissue). The human body, no matter how amazing it can be at times, cannot magically turn one tissue into another.

What Causes Skinny Fat?

The popular spiel online and really everywhere is that poor diet, exercise, and lifestyle cause muscle tissue loss and that lost muscle tissue turns into skinny fat tissue. This is not how human tissue works. No amount of dieting/protein, lifestyle, or exercise (resistance or cardio)/effort in the gym will fix/get rid of/avoid or change/turn/transform skinny fat tissue into muscle tissue.

If you are experiencing skinny fat where you genetically should have default genetic muscle/mass, you have since birth thanks to your genetics. The younger you are, the harder it can be to discern skinny fat. Currently, the best you can do is reduce it by safely losing regular fat (diet), adding muscle mass (exercise/weightlifting), and/or paying for a few FDA-approved methods.

FAQ #5 – Why are Science-Based Diet, Exercise, Lifestyle, Metabolism, & Genetics/Genetic Body Composition Important? 

Because current scientific evidence and facts matter when it comes to human health. 

FAQ #6 – How Does the Obesity Epidemic Relate to Body Type Science?

Body Type directly correlates to vertebrae, muscles, regular fat, and skinny fat, including normal weight obesity. Because one pound of muscle burns six calories daily, but one pound of fat/skinny fat only burns two to three calories, people who have skinny fat on their body and are following their calculated Standard BMR/RMR calories are eating too many calories daily. For many people, along with too much empty-calorie and low-quality calorie fast, junk, and processed foods, eating excess calories along with too sedentary a lifestyle leads to being overweight and obese.

Further, having skinny fat where there is genetically undeveloped muscle directly affects posture (spinal extension), which directly and negatively affects the structure and functioning (including exercise, metabolism, and athleticism) of the human body. Skinny fat increases the probability of having excess regular fat on the body. Obesity is defined as having too much regular fat on the body.

FAQ #7 – Why Are All Other Body Types Unscientific (Somatotypes/Three Body Types/Endomorph/Ectomorph/Mesomorph, Kibbe Body Types, Triangle Body Types, Rectangle Body Type, Hormone Body Types, 25 Body Types, 10 Body Types, Apple Body Type, Pear Body Type, etc.)?

None of those body types have a scientific definition, they are not based on real science. The somatotypes were fully discredited in the 1950s (70 years ago!).

If hormone body types were real, then why are there countless people in the world who have never been diagnosed with any imbalance of hormones by their licensed medical doctor, yet they are not the Standard Body Type One (BT1) once within safe Standard BMI? Why are there Standard Body Type One (BT1) people who have been diagnosed with a hormone imbalance yet have never looked like the four supposed hormone body types, the Adrenal, Thyroid, Liver, or Ovary (IE, real genetic scientific Body Type Two (BT2), Body Type Three (BT3), or Body Type Four (BT4)?

All those body types are completely void of scientific definition and are nothing but unscientific, arbitrary, subjective, nonsense shapes.

FAQ #8 – How Does Fellow One Research’s The Four Body Types’ Body Type Science Determine/Identify Body Types?

Use the genetic Scientific Body Type Quiz/Test for Women and Men to determine/identify if you are a Standard Body Type One (BT1), Body Type Two (BT2), Body Type Three (BT3), or Body Type Four (BT4). The Scientific Body Type Quiz can be used symbiotically with the Scientific Weight Loss Program Diary to scientifically track your diet, exercise, and lifestyle data while having access to the Expert Science-Based Diet, Exercise, Lifestyle “Ask Gnosis” Support Team. Finally, browsing the Celebrity Body Types will help you better understand how to identify and determine your own genetic scientific body type.