What is natural metabolism

Have you ever wondered why, despite the amount of physical exercise you perform, somebody else seems to lose considerable weight while not making much of an effort? This happens because of a natural process within each person's body called metabolism. Metabolism is the amount of energy or calories that your body will burn to maintain itself. Whatever actions you are performing, even if it is simply sleeping, your body is continuously burning calories and helping you lose weight. How effectively the body carries out this procedure differentiates from one individual to another. The most decisive factor in how effective your metabolism remains is based on the composition of your body. Simply put - the amount of muscle content against the fat content of your body. Individuals who have higher muscle content while also consistently exercising will have a higher rate of metabolism than somebody whose fat content is higher than muscle content and rarely exercises.

Some people will experience a sudden increase in the fat content of their body after a certain age as a result of the body gradually beginning to lose its muscles. This will most often happen around the age of 30. To counteract this, the individual must increase his/her amount of exercise performed in order to help maintain the same weight structure that he/ she had previously. The fat will continue to buildup even if the individual maintains the same levels of exercise as previously followed. As always, genetics plays an important role in defining how the metabolism will work in your body. People who have an abnormally low rate of metabolism will experience fatigue, dry skin, constipation, low blood pressure, a slow pulse or even feel very cold. However, it is also important to remember that these symptoms could be related to many other underlying medical conditions as well.

Drinking freshly brewed green tea is known to help boost the rate of metabolism as it contains caffeine as well as certain chemicals that increase the rate at which your body will be able to burn calories. It is very important to have a healthy intake of calcium as it will speed up basal metabolism. Consuming calcium through food sources is recommended rather than through supplements. Milk and milk products are rich sources of calcium. The consumption of alcohol is known to lower the rate of metabolism in the body, while also stimulating your appetite - making it a destructive combination when tying to reach your goal.

answered by G M

For any activity your body performs like eating, drinking, walking, sleeping, it requires energy. Natural metabolism is the energy your body burns to maintain its vital functions. Each person's metabolism varies from other as it depends entirely on body composition. For example a person who is more muscular would have a higher rate of metabolism than the other counterpart as muscle uses more energy than fat. Thus a simple way of increasing your metabolism would be to start exercising like weight lifts or aerobic exercises to increase your muscle mass and decrease your fat percentage.

As far as diet goes, never follow fad diets or starve yourself, as our body senses this condition as a starving state and your metabolism slows down. You can include low fat foods and high protein foods in your diet with lots of fresh fruit, vegetables and cereals. Protein can be incorporated in the form of eggs, fish, lean meats, low fat poultry, sprouts and pulses. Calcium is of utmost important; as besides giving strong bones it also helps to speed up your metabolism, include low-fat milk and milk products in the diet.

Thus ideally a combination of a healthy diet and exercise is a great way to increase your natural metabolism of the body.

answered by S P