What we thought about metabolism may be all wrong, new study suggests

Blaming those extra pounds on a slowing metabolism as you age? Not so fast.inevitably declines during our adult lives. Well, not until we’re in our 60s, anyway.

Pontzer and colleagues studied a database of more than 6,400 people, ages 8 days to 95 years, from 29 countries worldwide who had participated in “doubly labeled water” tests. With this method, individuals drink water in which some of the hydrogen and oxygen have been replaced with isotopes of these elements that can be traced in urine samples.

"People thought, 'Well, maybe it's because you're less active, or maybe it's because people tend to lose muscle mass as they get into their 60s, 70s and older,'" he said."But we can correct for all those things. We can say, 'No, no, no, it's more than that.' It's that our cells are actually changing."

“There are lots of things that impact weight status and also someone's nutritional status,” Tewksbury said. “It's not as simple as just one food or one lifestyle change or one change from a biological standpoint. It's more likely a much more complex web of lots of different changes happening at once. So that could be changes to food intake. It could be changes in activity levels. It can be where they're living, what they have access to, what are their sleep changes.

“It's not as if the weight gain is occurring because you don't ‘burn the same calories’ anymore,” he said.

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My ass says, 'Bullshit.'

Activity level does though. And that could be the misconception of metabolism slowing. We all eat the same and slow down (physically) then point fingers to the metabolism like it’s it’s fault. Naw. You lazy as fuck now yet eat the same thats why it’s a struggle to climb stairs.

Ok, give me a new excuse that I can use in social interactions for my extra weight then.

My whole life has been a LIE.

Post real news or I'll unfollow

Just another one of science's lies! From now on, I'll just believe what I want to believe (or whatever I'm told to believe by Tucker Carlson)

I'm 68. Thanks for the warning..... oh, never mind.

LET ME BELIEVE WHAT I WANT

This explains me to a T!

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