High Metabolism ReThink

December 15, 2010

This is one of those ‘thinking out loud posts’

Your Metabolism Made Simple…

And today I’m thinking about metabolism.
It kind of dawned on me today that things that increase our metabolic rates are most likely stressors or irritants.
Things like the components in green tea (EGCG) are able to minimally increase our metabolic rates…most likely because they are stressing or irritating our systems, causing them to work harder.
In fact, in the case of green tea (and caffeine) this result is short lived, most likely as a result of hormesis; which means our bodies adapt to this stressor and there ceases to be an effect on our metabolism after repeated doses.
In other words, your body can ‘get used’ to constant coffee/green tea consumption causing them to stop having much of an effect (if at all).
It could probably be argued that the ‘health’ benefits of these types of compounds occur once the ‘metabolism’ benefit ceases.
Regardless..thinking […]

Original post by Brad Pilon

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