Why is my metabolism slow
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everyone's on the hunt to fix their
metabolism when in reality what's going
on is not a slowing of the metabolism
our metabolism is every system and
process that goes into taking nutrients
from the food that we eat and
Manufacturing them into fuel it's
energetics it's everything right and
that doesn't necessarily slow down at
its core okay that's not happening that
is not directly slowing down as we age
but if you start looking at data you
realize a couple of very simple things
okay for one we've consumed a heck of a
lot more in the way of refined starches
in the way of refined sugars and those
things have really just hockey sticked
in the last 10 15 years right so the
Lion's Share of Baby Boomers and people
that have grown up in a time when those
kinds of things weren't around at first
they got exposed to them around I don't
know their 20s their 30s and it just
started to escalate well I'm not here to
pick on insulin I'm not here to pick on
carbohydrates but one of the things that
we do have to remember is that if our
metabolism is functioning at its normal
normal function right it's just doing
its normal thing and all of a sudden you
have an excess of carbohydrates that are
injected into your life
carbohydrates and insulin do stop
lipolysis now this isn't a bad thing in
moderation right it's simple fuel
preference and the body is going to
utilize carbs that come into the system
the simplest thing that I could ever say
is carbs are designed to be burned if
you're going to have carbs you should
probably plan on burning them and
utilizing them and moving right so these
carbs come in and they don't get
utilized well that triggers an insulin
Spike and the insulin will stand in the
way of fat being mobilized okay it has
an anti-lipolytic effect this does not
mean throw all your carbohydrates away
but it does mean that if you are eating
a lot every little bit of carbohydrate
that you add in is going to slow the
process down in terms of shoveling fat
into the bloodstream that may make it
seem like your metabolism is slowing
down but in a lot of ways your
metabolism is still doing its normal
thing it just has a re-prioritization of
the fuel that it is using
the other very important piece that goes
hand in hand with this and kind of
dovetails nicely is the fact that our
activity rate has declined immensely if
you look at our activity as a population
over the last 50 years it's pretty
insane okay we have like the most
activity during the Great Depression
people were walking around people were
moving people didn't have access to
Transportation the same way so they're
walking then World War II people were
moving a lot right then all of a sudden
we have washing machines where people
are able to just sit down and let their
clothes get washed we have everyone
getting a car so we've become more
sedentary and we do have to take a very
honest look at these things right we say
wait a minute maybe we are becoming more
sedentary and then we have the internet
we have TV right boom our activity level
just crashes and when you actually look
at data you realize that the bulk of
people between 50 and 65 outside of
their work life are insanely sedentary
now movement non-exercise activity
thermogenesis and exercise itself are
huge huge drivers of our metabolism
remember our metabolism is just
utilizing fuel
and turning it into energy
if you are not creating a demand for
energy you are not creating a need for
fuel so we take in that fuel and we
store it
couple that with Hyper palatable
processed food that is rich in
carbohydrates you have declines in
activity with increases in carbohydrates
you can see how that paints a picture
that carbohydrates are the serious
problem and I'm not saying that they
aren't because they definitely are a
huge problem in this case but for people
that are not willing to burn the
carbohydrates
it is important that they keep their
carbohydrates low I really do sincerely
believe that if you're active and you're
moving then I think carbohydrates are
fine right very delicate balance there
the other piece that we do have to
factor in a lot is protein consumption
okay protein is one of the most
thermogenic foods that you can eat and
I'm not saying that it boosts your
metabolism or does anything like that
but it does in a lot of ways cost a lot
of metabolic energy to process protein
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used to think that protein drove about a
15 to 20 percent increase in the
metabolic rate in terms of digestion but
now when we start looking at the data we
see wait a minute this is closer to 25
to 35 percent increase
so when the Lion's Share of our calories
is made up of refined starches that are
spiking insulin which stands in the way
of fat loss to begin with
that just means there's less room for
protein in the equation
okay now remember that our metabolism is
staying at a relative constant and when
you look at the data once again you find
that by the time someone is 90 years old
there's only about a 25 reduction in
their resting metabolic rate
so that's not a huge huge reduction when
we look at how much weight we gain right
a 25 reduction in our arresting
metabolic rate does not equate with how
much weight we tend to gain after we hit
our 40s and 50s
so we look at what happens to our
lifestyle three very very important
things we are eating less protein at a
very pivotal time when we need to
maintain muscle because if we lose that
muscle we lose our resting metabolic
rate potential okay the other thing is
we're less active we're not moving
around and by the way the more muscle
that you have when you are active the
more you're going to burn because muscle
is just an incinerator of once again
Fuel and of course the third thing is
going to be reducing the refined complex
carbohydrates now a question that comes
into play here is okay what about fruit
is fruit going to be okay fruit is
generally okay because a the
carbohydrate content isn't as high as
it's going to be in refined starches B
the fiber content usually keeps you
satiated so you don't eat as much and
see the fructose to glucose ratio plays
A Part fructose doesn't Spike insulin so
fructose arguably isn't going to slow
down fat loss as much as say glucose
from like a refined flour or a starch or
processed food so I still think that one
or two cups of fruit per day is totally
fine even when you're trying to keep
carbohydrates low now one of the
simplest things that you can remember
with this is if you're going to move
that day you can increase your
carbohydrates if you're going to be
sedentary that day you should decrease
your carbohydrates and increase your
protein so your metabolism isn't slowing
down
everything around you is and that is
indirectly affecting your metabolism so
as always keep it locked in here on my
channel I'll see you tomorrow