Can I speed up my metabolism?

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Health & Fitness, Fitness, Shoshana Ungerleider, Medicine, How To Be Healthier, Ted Shoshana, Ted Talks Health

4.2 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

From metabolism gummies to spicy foods, the Keto diet to intricate exercise routines—it seems there’s always something that is being sold or promoted to speed up your metabolism. But do most of us even know what our metabolism IS? And is there any way to hack it (you know, so we can eat pizza all day and not stress about it)? In this episode, Dr. Jen outlines what science knows about this process and why the myths and misunderstandings about our metabolism’s ability to change can actually do us more harm than good. This is an episode of Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter. To hear more episodes on the lies we're told—and sold—about our personal health, follow the show wherever you're listening to this.

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone. It's Dr. Shoshana here. So something a little different today. It's an episode
0:14.0	of Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter, another podcast in the Ted Audio Collective. In every
0:20.3	episode, Dr. Jen takes apart the sticky myths around personal health care, which are often
0:25.9	sold to us by companies and are wrapped up in bogus science. And she explores how our
0:31.4	bodies really work. You heard the trailer recently, but today I want to share a full episode.
0:38.4	I've heard so many ways that people try to boost their metabolism.
0:44.8	Drink green tea to boost your metabolism, spiky food, burn calories. Our vitamin will speed up
0:51.0	your metabolism. Muscle burns more calories than fat. Our metabolism boosting smoothies. So
0:56.0	start lifting weights today and lose weight easily. It's all based on one idea that there are
1:03.1	hacks that claim to rev up your metabolism, crank up how many calories you burn and the promise
1:09.5	is weight loss. But people, that's not how metabolism works. I'm Dr. Jen Gunter and from the Ted
1:18.4	Audio Collective, this is Body Stuff. I want you to forget everything you think you know about
1:25.4	your metabolism. It's a complicated system, like really complicated. So today we're going to talk
1:32.5	about what we know about it, what we don't know about it, and the one thing that's nearly guaranteed
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