The personal metabolic profile is highly important not only in terms of dietary habits or maintaining a normal body mass, but also for overall health. An individual can become obese due to various circumstances. The first and simplest situation would be overeating, resulting in consistently high blood sugar levels due to dietary carbohydrates and a large food volume. Over time, this leads to insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome, causing obesity through both lipogenesis and lipid deposition. However, this represents a relatively benign medical scenario because there are other more severe and complex factors that can contribute to obesity.

More complex situations may arise when an individual suffers from certain hormonal disorders such as hypothyroidism, benign or malignant conditions of the pituitary gland, disorders at the hypothalamic level, alteration of cortisol, the stress hormone due to, of course, stress, disorders of the adrenal glands leading to changes in steroids, hormones regulating hunger and satiety experiencing secretion disorders, menopause or andropause, and multiple other endocrine and hormonal imbalances. All of these can lead to disruptions in body mass, obesity, or underweight, and these situations must be medically addressed separately before transitioning to a new dietary lifestyle.

For these reasons, an individual who wishes to make changes in their lifestyle, diet, exercise routine, or mental well-being must first undergo careful medical evaluation. In many cases, a series of tests would be advisable beforehand. Additionally, a basic metabolic profile can be established through a few anthropometric measurements, of course, to assess the suspicion of metabolic syndrome, which, by excluding other diseases, can be quite accurately intuited. Thus, the person aiming to change their dietary, physical, and mental lifestyle should initially create an anthropometric profile, which is then useful for comparison.

Determining the Metabolic Profile is crucial to understand how an organism has reached a certain stage of abnormality, whether obesity, overweight, or underweight is caused by dietary habits or other factors, which can be related to sedentarism, daily habits or workplace, inadequate mental status or anxiety, or more severely, to certain metabolic disorders or conditions with metabolic impact, hormonal imbalances, or other causes.

Based on the metabolic profile and health status, the correct decision can be made on how to address an imbalance in body mass, whether through a holistic approach or through specialized medical intervention for correcting certain conditions.