Your Metabolism Ain't Slowing - a podcast by Jeff Caplan, KSL Newsradio

I’m gonna talk about medical science.  Now exhale… this has nothing to do with Covid.

A new study just published shows that everything we thought about our metabolism… is wrong.   This comes from a paper published in journal Science yesterday…. and experts are calling it a pivotal study that turns our knowledge of metabolism upside-down.6500 people were studied.  They were everywhere from 8 days to 95 years old.  Men … women…  And it’s  expensive to measure people’s metabolism.  It involves tracking the carbon dioxide we exhale during activity.  In other words… masks.  A bunch of researchers pooled the results and discovered… your metabolism doesn’t slow down as you age.

You know … you celebrate a few birthdays … you put on a few pounds… you chalk it up to a slowing metabolism.  Nope.  Nope nope nope.  The researchers found our metabolisms go through four phasesAt birth its the same as mom’s.  But a month later it kicks in hard… and that first year you are racing

Then from age 1- through 20 it slows by 1 percent a year.When you hit 20 20 through 60… your metabolism stays rock steady most of your life.  And after 60… it slows but only a tiny bit.  By 7-tenths of 1 percent a year.

By the time you’re 95 years old… the NY times says you’re metabolism is 20 percent slower than 60.   All this means that for almost everybody listening to me now…   chances are that slowly expanding waistline.  That little bit of belly jiggle… isn’t because your metabolism is slowing.  Landmark research.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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