Kind: captions Language: en we're either born with a slow or a fast metabolism you know when kids are teenagers and they're eating two or three meals their metabolism must be going off the charts where we get into our 40s of course our metabolism starts to slow down and we start to put on weight that is not the case this was the most jaw-dropping thing it turns out all of those ideas are false they studied humans that were two days old newborns and they studied people who are 90 plus years old they saw that humans go through only four phases of metabolism from birth to the end of life the first thing is that everyone's born with the exact same metabolism and from age zero to first year of Life are metabolism skyrocketing from age one to age 20 metabolism goes down down down down down to adult levels this is right through adolescence right through people's super energy the teenagers high energy modeis is going down the real mic drop here is that from age 20 to age 60 human Metabolism from 20 to 30 to 40 to 50 to 60 is Rock Solid it's stable it does not decrease So In This research when they added the effect of extra body fat back into the system it crushes your metabolism so excess fat slows your metabolism not the other way around it's good news because it means that we now have the power to be able to affect some change to fight that extra body fat in our middle years