5 Natural Ways To Boost And Improve Your Metabolism

Slow Metabolism? 5 Natural Ways To Boost And Improve Your Metabolism

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1. Get your Omega – 3s fatty acids: Omega – from where do you think you can get Omega – 3s? Yes you guessed it. 3s is found in fish such as salmon, herring, and tuna. But why doctors always tell us to eat fish? and how fish improves your metabolism? Well, the answer is that Omega-3s balance blood sugar and reduce inflammation, helping to regulate metabolism. They may also reduce resistance to the hormone leptin, which researchers have linked to how fast fat is burned.

2. Switch to Green Tea: I talked about the benefits of green tea in previous posts and showed how many great benefits can it contribute to the human body. Now I can add another benefit which is your Metabolism. But how much do you have to drink? According to one study, if you drink five eight-ounce cups of green tea a day, you can increase your energy expenditure by 90 calories a day. Sounds like a lot of tea, but it’s not hard to do if you also drink it iced.

3. Eat Breakfast: Sometimes when we wake up in the morning we don’t feel hungry, probably we will be satisfied with cup of coffee or tea. But the way that doctors explain it to their patients is “Eating breakfast gets the engine going and keeps it going.” According to the National Weight Control Registry (an ongoing study that tracks 5,000 people who lost an average of 66 pounds and kept it off more than five years), 78 percent of those who keep it off eat an a.m. meal every day. Wow great results.

4. Buy Organic Food Only: Fruits, vegetables, and grains grown without pesticides keep your fat-burning system running at full-tilt because they don’t expose your thyroid to toxins, Hyman says. Nonorganic produce, on the other hand, “blocks your metabolism mainly by interfering with your thyroid, which is your body’s thermostat and determines how fast it runs,” he explains.

5. Exercise: The next time you run, swim, or even walk, ramp up the intensity for 30-second intervals, returning to your normal speed afterward. Using this strategy will help you consume more oxygen and make your cell powerhouses, the mitochondria, work harder to burn energy, explains Mark Hyman, MD, an integrative and functional medicine specialist in private practice in Lenox, Massachusetts, and author of Ultrametabolism: The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss. “You increase the number of mitochondria and how efficiently they burn throughout the day,” he explains.