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We often hear people talk about metabolism, whether it's fast, slow, strong or sluggish. It's one of those health buzzwords that's often said, but rarely understood.

Yet understanding metabolism is essential.

It influences how we process food, how much energy we have,

and our risk of developing health conditions like diabetes, cancer and heart disease.

In this episode, Sean Stevenson and Tim Specter cut through the confusion.

Together, they'll explain what metabolism actually is and empower you to take control of yours.

I'd love to start right at the very beginning. Sean, what is metabolism and why does it matter?

From a rudimentary perspective, it's converting food into energy.

But that's looking at energy through this very isolated vanilla way.

You know, there's this entire microcosm of events.

And metabolism is really about the sum of all the different pieces that can create and generate energy and that feed into each other.

And for me, it's really based on that principle of energy cannot be created nor destroyed.

It can only be converted from one form into another.

And so this energy exchange, even if we're looking at that very vanilla version of it,

of food is creating energy, where

does the food come from?

What are the pieces and parts of the food that create the energy?

And there are other things besides food that are getting converted into energy for us as

well.

And whether that's body fat, whether that is, you know, oxygen and how it relates to all these

different pieces, there are literally millions of parts and inputs that determine metabolism.

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