Benefits of using the Carbon app?

The Carbon app, created by Layne Norton and discussed on the Huberman Lab, is designed to assist users with nutrition, exercise, and energy balance for goals like weight loss, muscle gain, and weight maintenance. It emulates the process of a nutrition coach by asking users about their goals, activities, and lifestyle to create a personalized plan. The app makes adjustments based on weekly progress, ensuring that users' energy expenditures and weight changes are appropriately accounted for. It also allows users to select dietary preferences and adjusts macronutrient ratios accordingly, aiming to improve long-term adherence by offering flexibility rather than rigid diet plans. Users can set various goals with different rates of progress, and according to Layne Norton, the app has been successful in accurately managing body weight and has high user retention and recommendation rates 1 2.