Welcome to the Yoga Talk Show with Lucas Rockwood, your one-stop destination for insider information.

This show bridges the gap between students and teachers so you can learn the latest and greatest in

yoga and health.

Here's your host, Lucas Rockwood.

Hello and welcome, Lucas Rockwood here with the Yoga Talk Show.

We have some great questions from students this week.

First question is from Debbie.

Debbie asks, so much attention is giving to using weight training to boost metabolism for weight

loss by building muscle and preventing osteoporosis.

Can the same goals be accomplished by using yoga

as your primary source of weight training

since it's essentially body weight training?

This is a really great question, Debbie.

There's a lot of confusion around metabolism and people are always talking about increasing their metabolism

ironically overweight people in many cases actually have a faster metabolic rate than thin people.

They actually have to in order to sustain that body size.

It's not really all about metabolism.

If you look at somebody who has a very very very slow metabolism would be like a monk in a monastery

they tend to have primarily sedentary lives they tend to eat very infrequently, and their metabolism is very slow

and they're still very thin.

And so metabolism is kind of a confusing one.

There's ways to increase your metabolism artificially, such as by

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