What boosts metabolism?

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  • lim12371
    lim12371 Posts: 6 Member
    It's the exercise, especially if you do it for a good amount of time. You get the afterburn, which is metabolism working on overdrive. I go to Orange Theory and they stress to run at push pace and it's all about getting in the orange zone, which is level 4 out of 5 on the performance chart. We wear a heart rate monitor and you can see your progress on the screen. Blue zone is easy, Green zone is normal easy pace, orange zone is pushing yourself and you fight to stay in the orange, challenge level zone. Red zone is the all out pace. You don't want to be in that zone for extended period. If you are at orange zone for most of the hour class, then you can count on getting after burn for two days after, so that is the metabolism working.

    They body is always in a state of metabolizing nutrients that the body receives, but it works harder the more exercise you put in, so that it is used to burn the calories.
  • J72FIT
    J72FIT Posts: 6,002 Member
    What boosts metabolism?

    IMO, nothing to any real measurable extent.
  • Galatea_Stone
    Galatea_Stone Posts: 2,037 Member
    Why don't you worry about boosting your NEAT instead? Do this by strength training, eating the proper balance of carbs, fat, and protein, and moving around more when you're not exercising. The greater the lean mass to fat ratio on your body, the higher your NEAT will be. You'll burn more calories just doing normal stuff like walking around your office or cleaning your house or walking to the mailbox.

    In short, sit on your *kitten* less and burn more calories.
  • ChristineEllei
    ChristineEllei Posts: 4 Member
    http://mytwocaloriesworth.blogspot.ca/search/label/Metabolism
  • jasonmh630
    jasonmh630 Posts: 2,850 Member
    Staying out of starvation mode is good for your metabolism... Lolz

    (That is a joke, by the way)
  • MKEgal
    MKEgal Posts: 3,250 Member
    BMR is your Base Metallic Rate
    Nope. Basal metabolic rate.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basal_metabolic_rate
    "rate of energy expenditure by humans and other animals at rest"
    "About 70% of a human's total energy expenditure is due to the basal life processes within the organs of the body (see table). About 20% of one's energy expenditure comes from physical activity and another 10% from thermogenesis, or digestion of food"

    So we only have control over about 20% of our caloric expenditure.
    Make the best of it: do aerobic exercise.

    http://articles.latimes.com/2011/may/16/health/la-he-fitness-muscle-myth-20110516
    "Claude Bouchard of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, La., who has authored several books and hundreds of scientific papers on the subject of obesity and metabolism... told me that muscle, it turns out, makes a fairly small contribution to RMR.
    ... muscle, contributes only 20-25% of total resting metabolism.
    ... intense aerobic activity like running burns twice as many calories per hour as hard weightlifting, and the metabolic boost from added muscle is not nearly enough to compensate for this difference... "
    green tea andor or caffeene (sic). Nicotine really boosts your BMR.
    Nope.
    Caffine & nicotine increase your heart rate & blood pressure.
    Excercise increase your daily calorie expenditure but does not increase your BMR.
    Sort of. It certainly increases your calorie expenditure, and it temporarily increases your metabolic rate, and it has the potential to affect your BMR slightly by increasing muscle.
    Gaining muscle will increase your BMR.
    Slightly, though if you're also losing fat the balance won't be very noticible.
    http://articles.latimes.com/2011/may/16/health/la-he-fitness-muscle-myth-20110516/2

    The author says on the first page:
    "... let's use me as a guinea pig and do the math. The 20 pounds of muscle I've gained through years of hard work equate to an added 120 calories to my RMR... However, I also engaged in a lot of aerobic activity and dietary restriction to lose 50 pounds of fat, which means I also lost 100 calories per day of RMR. So, post-physical transformation, my net caloric burn is only 20 calories higher per day, earning me one-third of an Oreo cookie. Bummer."
    Muscle takes more to maintain than Fat does pound for pound.
    Finally, true!
    1 lb of muscle uses 6 cal per day, 1 lb of fat uses 2 cal per day.

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/MKEgal/view/2014-08-05-does-building-muscle-actually-increase-rmr-684479

    "Here's the second page of the article I'll talk more about below:
    http://articles.latimes.com/2011/may/16/health/la-he-fitness-muscle-myth-20110516/2
    It references 3 studies which showed that weightlifting does not increase RMR. "
  • Tedebearduff
    Tedebearduff Posts: 1,155 Member
    What boosts metabolism? I know healthy food and regular exercise will help.
    But If you had to pick one over the other, which would you say has the higher impact in getting the metabolism revved up?
    Thanks !!

    Bodybuilding, the more muscle you have the faster your metabolism
  • trogalicious
    trogalicious Posts: 4,584 Member
    Garlic, green tea and red bell peppers.
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    I disapprove of your shenanigans.
    Good for ya.
    being "good for you" isn't the question.

    OP asked what boosts metabolism. The items you listed do not do that.
  • AskTracyAnnK28
    AskTracyAnnK28 Posts: 2,817 Member
    What boosts metabolism? I know healthy food and regular exercise will help.
    But If you had to pick one over the other, which would you say has the higher impact in getting the metabolism revved up?
    Thanks !!

    I dunno....but no matter what, please don't go buying those awful pills and whatnot that stupid Doctor Oz is peddling.
  • AmrOnTop
    AmrOnTop Posts: 52 Member
    Garlic, green tea and red bell peppers.
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    I disapprove of your shenanigans.
    Good for ya.
    being "good for you" isn't the question.

    OP asked what boosts metabolism. The items you listed do not do that.
    Congratulations.
  • The_Enginerd
    The_Enginerd Posts: 3,982 Member
    SheGlows, I know exactly what The_Enginerd is referring to. There's no "put your butt in school". I'm not new to this. Exercise does boost your metabolism, but it doesn't boost your BMR, much like The_Enginerd said.

    If I could clone myself and all things being equal between the two of us. If one of me worked out every day and one of me didn't, we would have the same BMR, but the one working out would have a higher metabolism the majority of time. Why? Because metabolism is increased from exercise. Did you not read my post? The more energy you expend, the more energy your body needs, and faster your body will turn food into energy: metabolism. It's not a permanent thing, but during and after exercise, temporarily, metabolism is at a faster rate.
    Yes, your "metabolism", in the strictest scientific definition of the term, is higher. That's not what most mean when they colloquially use the term; they are referring to BMR. Any extra energy needs due to exercise would fall under TEE, your "calories burned" for an exercise. So we agree... and are arguing semantics here...
  • trogalicious
    trogalicious Posts: 4,584 Member
    Garlic, green tea and red bell peppers.
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    I disapprove of your shenanigans.
    Good for ya.
    being "good for you" isn't the question.

    OP asked what boosts metabolism. The items you listed do not do that.
    Congratulations.
    ....wat?
  • diannethegeek
    diannethegeek Posts: 14,776 Member
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