The Surprising Secrets of Your Metabolism
Food, We Need To Talk
Juna Gjata
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The metabolism may seem like a magical concept: some people eat whatever they want and don’t gain weight. Others so much as look at a dessert and feel the pounds creeping on. But what do we know about our metabolism? Can it speed up? Can it slow down? Does yo-yo dieting damage our metabolisms? On this episode, Juna and Eddie talk to Dr. Herman Pontzer, Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke University all about the ins and outs of human energy expenditure, and what hunter gatherer tribes can teach us about how our metabolism works.
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| 0:25.7 | So when I was growing up, metabolism was a magical way to explain almost everything. |
| 0:34.0 | Why can my sister eat so much more than I can in stay skinny? |
| 0:37.0 | It's because of her metabolism. Why do men not struggle as much with their weight? |
| 0:41.0 | It's their metabolism. Why do I have so much trouble losing weight? |
| 0:44.5 | It's my metabolism. |
| 0:46.5 | I hear my friends say things like, oh, the reason I'm putting on some weight, well, |
| 0:50.9 | it's my metabolism. You know how it is as you get older. |
| 0:54.2 | But how much do we actually know about metabolism? |
| 0:57.3 | And how much of our problems can we blame on metabolism? |
| 1:00.0 | Can we speed it up? |
| 1:01.0 | Can we slow it down? |
| 1:02.8 | This and much more will be all the topics we are talking about on today's episode. |
| 1:07.7 | I'm Yuna Jada. |
| 1:08.8 | And I'm Dr. Eddie Phillips. |
| 1:10.3 | And you're listening to food we need to talk. |
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