{"id":647168,"date":"2021-08-15T10:36:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T14:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=647168"},"modified":"2021-08-15T10:36:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T14:36:31","slug":"breakthrough-metabolism-study-puts-blame-on-you-not-sex-or-age-until-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breakthrough-metabolism-study-puts-blame-on-you-not-sex-or-age-until-60\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough Metabolism Study Puts Blame On You, Not Sex\u00a0Or Age Until 60"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbreakthrough-metabolism-study-puts-blame-on-you-not-sex-or-age-until-60%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=647168&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-113743815.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>We\u2019ve all heard or used the excuse one or two dozen times before: the extra weight gain is because our metabolism has slowed down! Well, according to a new breakthrough study, that\u2019s likely not true \u2014 not until your 60, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>The study, <a href=\"https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/lookup\/doi\/10.1126\/science.abe5017\">published<\/a> last week in Science magazine, shows metabolism leveling off and staying put from ages 20 to 60.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s right \u2014 your&nbsp;metabolism&nbsp;doesn\u2019t slow down past&nbsp;stabilization&nbsp;until you\u2019re 60 years old, and then it continues to slow down.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s more, ladies, the study shows the stabilization in both men and women with no real differences between the metabolic rates.<\/p>\n<p>According to the study, here are the four different stages of metabolism, The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/08\/12\/health\/metabolism-weight-aging.html\">outlined<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"css-1le37cb ez3869y0\" readability=\"5.5\">\n<li class=\"css-o74qhc eoqvrfo0\" readability=\"3\">\n<p class=\"css-bwdy7f evys1bk0\"><em>There\u2019s infancy, up until age 1, when calorie burning is at its peak, accelerating until it is 50 percent above the adult rate.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"css-o74qhc eoqvrfo0\" readability=\"1\">\n<p class=\"css-bwdy7f evys1bk0\"><em>Then, from age 1 to about age 20, metabolism gradually slows by about 3 percent a year.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"css-o74qhc eoqvrfo0\" readability=\"0\">\n<p class=\"css-bwdy7f evys1bk0\"><em>From age 20 to 60, it holds steady.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"css-o74qhc eoqvrfo0\" readability=\"1\">\n<p class=\"css-bwdy7f evys1bk0\"><em>And, after age 60, it declines by about 0.7 percent a year.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">After controlling for body size and the amount of muscle people have, researchers found no differences between men and women, the Times noted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">\u201cIt was really clear that we didn\u2019t have a good handle on how body size affects metabolism or how aging affects metabolism,\u201d said Dr.&nbsp;Herman Pontzer, an evolutionary anthropologist at Duke University behind the study. \u201cThese are basic fundamental things you\u2019d think would have been answered 100 years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Pontzer said he was surprised to learn about infants\u2019 metabolic rates. Babies\u2019 metabolic rates for their first month are about the same as their mother\u2019s, before \u201csomething kicks in and the metabolic rate takes off.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"story-ad-3-wrapper\" class=\"css-zz666k\" readability=\"66.575052854123\">\n<p>Researchers were also surprised when they didn\u2019t find a drop-off in women\u2019s metabolic rate as they get into their 40s and approach menopause. \u201cWe just didn\u2019t see that,\u201d&nbsp;Dr. Pontzer said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no effect of menopause that we can see, for example. And you know, people will say, \u2018Well when I hit 30 years old, my metabolism fell apart.\u2019 We don\u2019t see any evidence for that, actually.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">From ages 60-95, though, researchers found that your metabolic rate slows by about one percent each year until you die.&nbsp;\u201cPeople thought, \u2018Well, maybe it\u2019s because you\u2019re less active, or maybe it\u2019s because people tend to lose muscle mass as they get into their 60s, 70s and older,\u2019\u201d Dr. Pontzer <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/08\/13\/metabolism-doesnt-slow-down-in-middle-age-shocking-study\/\">explained<\/a>. \u201cBut we can correct for all those things. We can say, \u2018No, no, no, it\u2019s more than that.\u2019 It\u2019s that our cells are actually changing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">According to the Times, the paper has more than 80 co-authors. \u201cBy combining efforts from a half dozen labs collected over 40 years, they had sufficient information to ask general questions about changes in metabolism over a lifetime,\u201d the Times&nbsp;detailed the study. \u201cAll of the research centers involved in the project were studying metabolic rates with a method considered the gold standard \u2014 doubly labeled water. It involves measuring calories burned by tracking the amount of carbon dioxide a person exhales during daily activities.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">\u201cThe investigators also had participants\u2019 heights and weights and percent body fat, which allowed them to look at fundamental metabolic rates,\u201d the report explained. \u201cA smaller person will burn fewer calories than a bigger person, of course, but correcting for size and percent fat, the group asked: Were their metabolisms different?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve all heard or used the excuse one or two dozen times before: the extra weight gain is because our metabolism has slowed down! 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