The claim fails against the available evidence.
Low-carb diets drop weight fast — 61% of it water in one measured study, against 37% on an equal-calorie mixed diet. At matched calories they don't remove more fat. The model's own advocates funded the trial that showed it.
Creatine adds about 1.9 lb of body mass, almost none of it fat — which lands on your scale in the middle of a diet. On whether it burns fat, the two best 2024 analyses disagree, and the larger one found nothing.
Thirteen controlled trials and 1,158 people say no — the pooled effect of targeted training on targeted fat is indistinguishable from zero. The belief didn't start with a study. It started with a machine that needed a reason to exist.
Don't eat protein with starch — the rule has been sold since 1929 and tested exactly once. In that trial the food-combining group lost slightly less weight. The digestion claim has never been tested at all.