HOW TO BURN M AT AN Here’s some GOOD NEWS: Your metabolism doesn’t drop off as soon as you may think! Even better: There are ways to keep it humming along for years to come. the ‘batteries’ in your cells, but there are ways to
make the most of your metabolic health no matter How Age Impacts Metabolism how many candles are on your birthday cake. If There are many factors that affect metabolism at you’re in your 20s, 30s, 40s or 50s, you can build any age, but the biggest one is how much you move. healthy lifestyle habits now that will pay off. If you Being active is easier when you are young, but as are older already, those habits matter more than we move into middle age and senior years, there’s a ever to maximize your strength and vibrancy. Here tendency to move less as your career and busy home are some of the most powerful strategies and ones life make regular exercise harder to squeeze in. Then I follow. of course, there are the aches and pains that we all experience that can also limit movement. Move More. Be active on the regular! At the same time, you’ll likely lose muscle tissue as you get older. Starting at around age 30, muscle mass starts to decline at a rate of three to eight percent per decade. Being less active is certainly a part of this but changes in levels of certain hormones like testosterone, thyroid and growth hormone and how our body processes them, may also play a role. All of these factors dial up the body’s proportion of fat to muscle. And since fat burns only about one-third as many calories as muscle tissue does, the result is less calorie-burning power. Lastly, the older we get, the more likely you are to develop a chronic condition such as heart disease or diabetes. This could affect how your body processes nutrients, how your organs function and other metabolic measures. It also can hamper you from being as active as you used to be. What Can You Do To Keep Those Fires Burning Okay, so you can’t exactly change your genetics or LUXE LIFE MAGAZINE 18
