Is Metabolism Genetic?

Food, We Need To Talk

Juna Gjata

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Health

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Today, we're continuing our conversation about metabolism, this time diving into aging and genetics. Ever wondered if you can actually control your metabolism or if it's just something you inherit from your parents? And what’s the deal with feeling like your metabolism was faster when you were younger? We're getting to the bottom of it all in this episode. Tune in to find out the truth!

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of the talk. Today we are continuing our
0:05.0	fundamentals of metabolism episode and we're going to be talking about genetics
0:09.3	and aging. Ooh it sounds kind of like dorky, like fundamentals of metabolism.
0:15.9	I mean, like, why don't we just call this?
0:18.6	What do you want to call it?
0:19.6	Why is my metabolism so slow and why am I?
0:22.1	Wait, yes, I love that. Let's call it, why is my metabolism so slow and why am I? Wait, yes, I love that.
0:23.5	Let's call it why is my metabolism so slow?
0:25.6	All right, so here's the common belief.
0:27.4	Yeah.
0:27.9	That after age 30, your metabolism slows down.
0:31.2	And the reality check is
0:33.4	but but da da
0:35.0	Your metabolism actually stays consistent from age 20 to about age 60.
0:41.0	What?
0:42.0	I know you guys.
0:44.0	I can hear hearts breaking through the headphones.
0:47.0	Everybody's like, what are you talking about?
0:48.0	No, woman, you're wrong.
0:50.1	And this was actually a study recently done by our former guest Hermann Ponser,
0:55.0	where they looked at metabolisms of babies all the way up to I think 96 year olds.
1:00.0	To their 90s, yeah.
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