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I've heard so many ways that people try to boost their metabolism.

Drink green tea to boost your metabolism.

Eating spicy food means you burn calories.

Our vitamin will speed up your metabolism.

The muscle burns more calories than fat.

Our metabolism boosting smoothies.

So start lifting weights today and lose weight easily.

It's all based on one idea that there are hacks that claim to rev up your metabolism.

Crank up how many calories you burn and the promise is weight loss.

But people, that's not how metabolism works.

I'm Dr. Jen Gunter and from the Ted Audio Collective, this is Body Stuff.

I want you to forget everything you think you know about your metabolism.

It's a complicated system, like really complicated.

So today, we're going to talk about what we know about it, what we don't know about it,

and the one thing that's nearly guaranteed to change your metabolism.

I follow Dr. Kevin Hall on Twitter.

I love following experts who can summarize really complex stuff up into very digestible bites, pardon the pun.

Well, I do my best.

He's a researcher at the National Institutes of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases,

which is part of the National Institutes of Health, and he's an expert in metabolism.

Metabolism is the complex sequence of chemical reactions inside every cell of our body

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