The Biggest Myth About Your Metabolism Debunked

You've probably heard that your metabolism slows down as your age. Turns out, that isn't entirely true. A new study revealed that your metabolism actually remains steady throughout most of your adult life. » Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker » Watch more Elements! http://bit.ly/ElementsPlaylist » Visit our shop at http://shop.seeker.com » Sign Up for Seeker's Newsletter! https://www.seeker.com/newsletters Every minute of every day, your body is converting food or stored fat into energy to keep itself going—pumping blood, expanding and contracting your lungs, plus all kinds of stuff on a cellular level, like making new cells and getting rid of old ones. That’s your basal metabolic rate. On top of that, there’s the energy you expend to move around and do the physical activity of your day… plus the energy it takes to process your food into energy in the first place. The exact amount of energy it takes to do all this varies from person to person. If someone burns through a lot of energy in a given amount of time, we say they have a fast metabolism. Those who burn less energy in the same amount of time have a ‘slow’ metabolism. There are so many crash diets and ‘quick fixes’ that promise to speed up your metabolism to help you achieve weight loss, but the truth is that the speed of your metabolism is determined almost entirely by your genes. And research is telling us that metabolism actually plays a relatively small role in weight management anyway—the biggest factors for this are good ol’ diet and activity levels. So how about that “our metabolism gets slower as we age?” factoid? Well, for years it was widely accepted by the scientific community, but a 2021 study has given us a much-needed update. A team of 80 co-authors analyzed metabolic rate data collected by different labs over the course of 40 years. This data comes from more than 6,400 people ranging from 8 days old to 95 years old. Turns out, there are metabolic shifts in our lives, but pro