IS MY METABOLISM REALLY SLOWING DOWN?

Yet this age-old advice often fails us and we can be left wondering whether there is something wrong with us or if we should just put it down to a slowing metabolism. So what’s really going on here? Essentially, the calorie equation (calories in versus calories burned) fails to consider a whole host of factors that impact our metabolic rate. So what does impact on our metabolic rate and what can we do about it?

A RESTRICTIVE DIET

Many people, women especially, have been dieting (restricting!) for years, decades even. Yet we tend to forget that when we’re restricting calories, we may also be inadvertently restricting the essential nutrients that drive the biochemical processes in our body – the very nutrients that drive cellular metabolism and maintain proper functioning of our body systems. Not to mention that our body doesn’t understand the difference between us intentionally curbing our intake of food and there being a situation in which food has become scarce. Your body therefore believes it is doing you an enormous