Is Your Metabolism Broken?
The Flexible Dieting Lifestyle Podcast
The Flexible Dieting Lifestyle
5.0 • 635 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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In this episode, we talk about metabolism and why yours isn’t broken. Before we start, we define what metabolism is (1:30). And once you have a better understanding, from a scientific perspective, we dive into detail of what your metabolic rate is made of up (1:58). First, we have your basal metabolic rate, which is the energy you need to stay alive. For example, the energy you’re going to expend just laying down. Second, we have your non-resting energy expenditure (3:30), which is the energy you expend when you’re not at rest. There are two parts to this: your physical activity/movement and your non-exercise activity thermogenesis (NEAT). Within the fitness community, there’s an interesting conversation around this topic (4:33) and that includes those NEAT liars (7:34). Third, we have the thermic effect of food (8:42) and that’s the energy required to digest the food that you’re eating.
Now that we’ve talked about what your metabolic rate includes, let’s look at a few variances (9:03). The biggest one here is going to be tied to NEAT (10:04). If you want to hear more, be sure to continue listening. As we wrap up this episode, we answer two questions. The first is whether or not your metabolism really is broken (15:42). Because there’s a discrepancy between people underreporting what they’re eating while over reporting their energy expenditure, they think their metabolism is broken. And the second, does your metabolism slow down as you age (25:50)?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the flexible dieting lifestyle podcast. I'm your host, Zach Rushflow. I'm with my co-host, Miguel |
| 0:17.0 | Blocutche. And today we are talking about why your metabolism isn't broken. Super excited for |
| 0:23.6 | this episode but before we begin screenshot this put it up on your Instagram story let people |
| 0:28.7 | know that you are listening to the podcast you guys have been crushing it we have enjoyed seeing |
| 0:33.9 | you guys repost these like crazy it's been the coolest feeling in the world. So |
| 0:37.8 | definitely continue to do that. Let people know we are making a wave of change. The amount of people |
| 0:44.2 | that are listening to the podcast and applying these principles, it's unfri-un-believable. So first |
| 0:51.5 | off, from Miguel and I, thank you guys so much. And also with the iTunes, |
| 0:56.2 | five-star reviews, or whatever review you want to give, just go in there, go to iTunes, |
| 1:01.8 | leave a review if we've had any impact on you guys or whatever provider you're listening to |
| 1:06.0 | the podcast on and has a rating system. It helps so much. You guys have been absolutely crushing it. |
| 1:12.1 | It's helping us to stay on top of the charts |
| 1:15.2 | and it's just been such a cool thing. |
| 1:17.1 | So first from Miguel and I, yeah, thank you guys so much. |
| 1:21.6 | But let's get into today's episode. |
| 1:24.2 | Miguel, before we understand if somebody's metabolism is broken, we first need to understand |
| 1:29.9 | the scientific definition of what the heck is your metabolism. We need to understand what this |
| 1:35.4 | mythical creature is that everybody loves to talk about and say that's broken. The metabolism really |
| 1:41.3 | just comes down to your total daily energy expenditure. |
| 1:44.9 | This is all the amount of energy that you expand within a day. |
| 1:48.7 | If you guys remember a few episodes back, we said that a calorie really is just a measurement |
| 1:53.3 | of energy. |
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