Category: Metabolism

Cold water immersion does raise energy expenditure while you are cold, because your body has to make heat. The amount is small: estimates of what brown…

Between now and 2030 the tools around weight loss change a great deal and the biology underneath it does not budge. Better medicines, cheaper sensors and…

No home ingredient boosts your metabolism in any way you would notice. A few, chili and caffeine among them, nudge energy expenditure by a few dozen…

The spice rack is not hiding a fat burner. Here is what the evidence shows for green tea, cinnamon, chilli and water, and which parts of…

Metabolic age is not a reading of how old your body is. A scale estimates your resting calorie burn, then reports whichever chronological age has that…

Fat loss is what you are actually after. Weight is only the measuring instrument, and a noisy one. What decides how much of any loss is…

There is no reset button, and nothing you drink at 7am flips one. Insulin sensitivity improves through a short and unglamorous list: losing some weight if…

Not in the way the phrase suggests. Strength training does raise resting energy use, but the measured effect is modest: about 96 extra calories a day…

Ephedra produced a small average weight difference in short trials and sharply raised odds of palpitations and psychiatric symptoms. Here is what the evidence shows and…

Not in the way that phrase is usually meant. Mitochondria and cell metabolism are genuinely central to how tumours behave, but the change that defines cancer…

The phrase covers several different things, only one of which is a metabolic rate. Here is what the measurements show, and which parts of the daily…