What if I told you that the problems of overweight, low libido, lack of motivation, or even that the tendency to depression could potentially come from a single cause:  the drop in your metabolism.  Do you want to know more?

Thus, we are thinking in this article regarding metabolism, a biochemical mechanism of which we know very least but which is very significant since it is involved in the proper functioning of our whole body.

Understanding metabolism is an essential key to building solid health.

To begin with, I will explain the role and importance of metabolism in our body to you. I will then show you 4 ways to increase your metabolism in a natural way and have a hell of potato while keeping the banana!

To begin with, what is metabolism?

The metabolism is the set of chemical reactions that take place in our body, it is essential to maintain our vital functions running.

It is he who will influence the rate of assimilation of our food, the rate of elimination of our waste, our body temperature, but also all the chemical fluctuations in our body.

Our metabolism is never stable and is constantly fluctuating. It is the thyroid gland (located in our neck), which is responsible for increasing or decreasing the power of the metabolism, a bit like a thermostat.

The higher our metabolism, the more energy we burn, and therefore the more we burn our fat reserves, the hotter we are, the more positive our moods, the more our libido will be important:  it is overall our body that works better.

Conversely, people with a slowed metabolism burn little energy and are more prone to overweight. They are cautious people with low libido and who have a strong propensity for depression and negativity in general.

When you suffer from these effects, your metabolism (or, more specifically, your thyroid) will possibly no longer work its task.

Concrete solutions to increase your metabolism:

1. Find restful sleep

Quality sleep is essential to regenerate energy and nerve reserves.

To operate a car, it is essential to have a recharged battery. The body works the same way.

If I have the necessary nervous energy, → my body is functioning properly.

To increase your metabolism, it is very important to get good sleep.

Conversely, an exhausted person will “idle,” and this may directly influence the functioning of his thyroid gland (which is responsible for regulating our level of metabolism)

The exhaustion will indeed do reduce drastically the power of our metabolism and cause all the problems we have mentioned. This explains why it is common to say that lack of sleep and fatigue makes us fat or depressed!

What is quality sleep?

Most people think of quality sleep as “number of hours”. They do not take into account the time of bed when this measure is the most important.

You have to :

  • Sleep following the natural cycles of the sun (going to bed between 9 p.m. and 11 p.m., waking up between 6 a.m. and 8 a.m.) The hours of sleep before midnight count double!
  • Sleep in peace without external noise in a ventilated room.
  • Protect yourself from electromagnetic pollution by turning off your cell phone and wi-fi, but also by unplugging all electrical devices near the bed (lamp, alarm clock, etc.).
  • Avoid screens (computer, TV) just before sleeping because they have an exciting effect and prevent us from sleeping.

2. Move as often as possible!

The physical effort is a great way to increase metabolism. You, therefore, understand the value of remaining physically active daily.

You can practice a regular sporting activity or introduce physical effort into your daily life by, for example, replacing the car with the bike, the elevator with the stairs, the sofa with walking, etc. Make room for your imagination.

What matters is regularity and frequency, the goal being to use your muscles throughout the week to keep your metabolism at a high level.

I guarantee that a light activity repeated every day makes all the difference!

It is interesting to know that some efforts will boost your metabolism more than others.

3. STOP RESTRICTIVE DIETS

Many believe that to lose weight, you have to resort to restrictive diets → Very bad idea!

When we do a little work, we quickly learn that a host of diets of all kinds and colours. Both these ‘diets’ share one thing: they do not satisfy our body’s physiological needs.

However, the basic idea may seem pretty good: eat less to store less fat… However, the reality is different.

When we deprive ourselves of food the body sets up an adaptive response:

During a diet, the body no longer receives enough calories and will decrease the level of metabolism (and therefore energy consumption) significantly to ensure that there is enough energy available to keep our vital functions operational.

If this deprivation persists over time, the level of metabolism will remain very low, even when you are going to start eating “normally.”

And what happens when you stop your diet?

You put on more weight than before simply because you have lowered your metabolism.

Your body’s energy expenditure has remained very low and it is no longer able to use the food you eat again → Fat storage

Calorie restriction can have beneficial effects if it remains punctual as is the case with the practice of fasting.

However, when this is blindly extended over time (regime), it can become very harmful and even catastrophic!

4. Eat foods made from vegetable fats

Certain beliefs pass dietary fat as a major poison that should be avoided under penalty of ending up obese and sick … Once again, nothing could be more false.

Be careful, when I talk about fats, I am, of course, talking about good quality fats (unprocessed and uncooked) and what is more vegetable fats!

These fats would greatly promote the elevation of metabolism and would be a major health asset … (precursor of a large part of our hormones, anti-inflammatory, softening of the intestinal sphere, etc.)

The coconut and particularly the oil / fat coconut would be fabulous to increase metabolism.

Fat to help you lose weight and feel better, you dreamed it? Coconut has done for you

The coconut is not the only food rich in vegetable fat, there are a multitude.

Foods rich in vegetable fats:

  • All the seeds and oleaginous fruits: walnuts, coconut, cashews, pistachios, almonds, Brazil nuts, flax seeds, sunflower seeds, squash seeds, hemp seeds, sesame seeds…
  • Note: some seeds and some nuts have to need to be pre-soaked or sprouted to increase their nutritional potential and eliminate the presence of toxic anti-nutrients.
  • Purees made from nuts and seeds: peanuts, almonds, hazelnuts, cashews, sesame …
  • The lawyers
  • The olives
  • Vegetable oils (olive, rapeseed, sunflower, etc.)

To ensure the quality of the fats consumed, be sure to select the rawest and most natural foods possible. Food that has not been processed or cooked!

Example of fatty foods to avoid:

  • dry roasted and salted pistachios, peanuts, cashews
  • non-organic, hot-pressed oils
  • the roasted peanut puree

It is when food is denatured that fats oxidize, and they can become harmful.

Finally, we quickly realize that a lack of sleep, physical activity, vegetable fats, and restrictive diets are somewhat the hallmark of today’s society:

– We have entirely unbalanced rhythms of life, which are a source of exhaustion.

– We live in a society marked by sedentary lifestyle and laziness, how can we find the motivation and the energy to move when we are on the brink of burnout?

– Our image is one of our major concerns. We are afraid of putting on weight, so we decide to go on restrictive diets by eating less “fat” because we have been persuaded that this was the solution.