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Everything You Know About Metabolism Is Wrong

10/7/202548 min

If you’ve heard of metabolism, you’ve probably heard endless tips and tricks to boost it, from working out to drinking green tea. The idea is that a slow metabolism leads to weight gain, and speeding it up makes it easier to shed pounds. But what if we told you that metabolic rate doesn't really have anything to do with why so many of us in the developed world are heavy? This episode, nutrition scientist Kevin Hall and science journalist Julia Belluz join us to debunk metabolic myths, starting with what actually happened behind the scenes on the real...

Clips

Weight loss flips metabolism logic
Metabolisms stayed suppressed years later
More weight loss, slower metabolism
The diet-exercise importance flip
It’s not your fault
From shame to anger
Rats, junk food, reset set point
Calories, not workouts, drove loss
Data beats intuition, always
Leptin and the body’s signals

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Nicola Twilley· Host0:01

    [upbeat music] If you're a human being in most of the world, you've probably heard some version of this.

  2. Speaker 1· Soundbite0:08

    If you ever wake up unmotivated with low energy and you think your metabolism is slow, here are some ways that can help you focus on your lean body mass. The more muscle tissue you have, the faster your metabolism is gonna be. You want to focus on movement, and the best thing anybody can do is walk 10,000 steps per day to boost up that metabolism.

  3. Nicola Twilley· Host0:34

    Like I said, you've undoubtedly heard this type of thing before, that your metabolism affects how energetic you're feeling and how much you weigh, and that there are steps you can take to tweak how fast or slow it is.

  4. Cynthia Graber· Host0:44

    In this episode, we are bringing you the one true secret of boosting your metabolism.

  5. Nicola Twilley· Host0:51

    Just kidding. We are not that kind of show. This is, in fact, Gastropod, the podcast that looks at food through the lens of science and history. I'm Nicola Twilley.

  6. Cynthia Graber· Host1:00

    And I'm Cynthia Graber. This episode, we're setting out to discover the science behind the hype. What is metabolism? Is speeding it up or slowing it down the main thing that affects whether you retain a few extra pounds or not?

  7. Nicola Twilley· Host1:11

    Can you boost it by exercising or drinking green tea like the YouTube influencers say? Or what does regulate how fast or slow it is?

  8. Cynthia Graber· Host1:20

    And why does everyone, all those online influencers like the chiropractor from Dallas who started the show, why do they all get everything about metabolism wrong?

  9. Nicola Twilley· Host1:29

    Just a

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