The Best Way to Supercharge Your Metabolism — According To Science
A robust metabolism is very important, especially if you want to lose weight and prevent yourself from the dreaded regain thereafter.
Although we don’t diminish our metabolism’s potential until about age 60, it’s quite easy not to take the necessary steps to keep that metabolism kicking along.
For instance, as we get older, responsibilities seem to climb. We have had a more demanding job since moving up in the ranks.
Then we might become a lot more time-poor than we did in our 20s, which leaves us open to making the wrong food choices.
Cooking at home and preparing meals is almost forgotten now with uber eats delivery and the conveniences of ready-made meals doing all the macro counting for you.
Perhaps I’m a little old-fashioned, but I still enjoy cooking and mixing spices and flavours.
But, seeing as life get’s busier, and sometimes we may need a little bit of help along the way, it makes sense to use functional strategies to nip a sluggish metabolism in the bud.
Whilst it’s also very important to keep eating healthy and exercising every day, this tip will help boost your metabolism potential while bypassing some of the troubles you may incur through lack of activity or diet mishaps.
It’s not going to save you, though — you still have to put in the work consistently. Researchers have found that our skeletal muscles seem to adjust to high-intensity interval training and alternations to mechanisms crucial for controlling our metabolism and any muscular contractions.
This is where high-intensity interval training regularly comes in. It’s a very successful strategy to keep the fire going throughout your lifetime and keep your cardiovascular health where it needs for better health and longevity.
For this study, researchers took eight men who had not trained through a five-week program of high-intensity cycling.
All these men exercised three times a week, cycling for four minutes at a target heart rate of more than 90% of their maximum, followed by a two-minute break.
Each man went through the session, performing this process four to five times.
After scientists examined the tissue samples taken from each participant, they discovered an increase in proteins used to build mitochondria, which produce energy in cells and the proteins were related to muscular contractions.
There was also increased acetylation of mitochondria proteins and a reduction in muscular calcium sensitivity, which is essential for muscle contractions.
Reductions in calcium sensitivity can explain why it’s harder for muscle contractions to occur after an athlete becomes fatigued (think of that very intense burning in your muscles).
So, in summary, acetylation may contribute to boosting your metabolism.
Although any exercise is beneficial, if you want to move the fat-burning needle consistently, it’s important to train intensely enough to positively impact your health and lose weight.
HIIT substantially boosts metabolism through the necessary muscular contractions and could treat metabolic disease.
I know how intense and hard HIIT can be for someone starting out or with an injury.
Remember too that the emphasis of this study was on a bike, but you can use any suitable machine that caters to your body size and fitness levels.
Starting small and working your way up is very important.
The intensity you start with increases as you train your nervous system, and that’s when the magic of fat burning happens.
Do you perform HIIT, and how have you boosted body fat loss with it?
