Since we've been doing this podcast for a long time we have covered a lot of topics

and there are certain topics that are just really popular and a lot of these topics are complicated but they relate to

everything we talk about and one of those topics is metabolism. Oh boy.

Eddie oh boy is right because metabolism is such a complex subject and it's been giving

scientists headaches for decades it has been giving me personally a headache

for two decades okay?

All right, you know, before we lose the listeners in the first 30 seconds of this

podcast, I think we're going to do something that we're actually good at,

which is take this admittedly complicated topic yeah and break it down.

Whoa we're gonna break it down but did you know that we are a science-based humor-

released health podcast so I think we're also gonna make it fun.

Yes we're gonna make it fun as well because I mean we're also going to make it fun. Yes, we're going to make it fun as well because I mean we're going to answer things that listeners ask us like,

my metabolism is slowing down.

Or I just don't have the metabolism I used to. Or if you're like me you're like why is her metabolism so fast? Why is my metabolism so fast? Why is my metabolism so slow?

So we wanted to start a series where we cover the fundamentals the concepts, the big rocks that tie everything

else we talk about together.

So on this first ever episode of the series, we are diving into the fundamentals of metabolism. What is our metabolism? Do some people have a slow one and

other people have a fast one? How can I speed mine up asking for a friend?

I'm Yuna Yata.

And I'm Dr Eddie Phillips,

associate professor at Harvard Medical School.

And you're listening to Food We Need to Talk,

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