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Ray Peat said…
“Keeping the metabolic rate up is the main thing, and there are lost of ways to do it.” (2015)
What are your practices to keep metabolic rate up?
This is a really good question Dawg. I am going to have to add here in bite-size pieces, but the two things that come to mind is lots of sugar sources, especially raw honey for me, and moving around. Sitting at night watching television set me up for a bad night sleep, which ruined my mornings. Reversing that chain reaction made such a difference. I gave up tv in September of 2022, and I am on the-go all day long and my mind is constantly creative and ambitious. It is hard to keep up with it, but I love it! That “tell-a-vision” “programing” was slowing my momentum and numbing my brain. I get so much done now, achieve more, am more social on the telephone, I read again and I grow a lot of fruit!
There are a few Ray Peat quotes that back up my conclusion….
“While jogging became popular for preventing heart disease, we were frequently told by experts how many miles a person has to run to burn off a pound of fat. However, in Russia, physiologists always remember to include the brain in their calculations, and it turns out that a walk through interesting and pleasant surroundings consumes more energy than does harder but more boring exercise. An active brain consumes a tremendous amount of fuel.” Ray Peat
“An environment that fosters optimal intelligence will necessarily promote the development of emotional health, and will almost certainly foster good physical health and longevity, because no part of the physiological system can thrive at the expense of another part. And within the boundaries of life-enriching environments, there are infinite possibilities for variety.” -Ray Peat
“Curiosity, esthetics, creativity, and stimulation are necessarily and deeply linked to metabolic efficiency and structural-anatomical development.” -Ray Peat
“A lowered metabolic rate and energy production is a common feature of aging and most degenerative diseases. From the beginning of an animal’s life, sugars are the primary source of energy, and with maturation and aging there is a shift toward replacing sugar oxidation with fat oxidation. Old people are able to metabolize fat at the same rate as younger people, but their overall metabolic rate is lower, because they are unable to oxidize sugar at the same high rate as young people. Fat people have a similar selectively reduced ability to oxidize sugar.
Stress and starvation lead to a relative reliance on the fats stored in the tissues, and the mobilization of these as circulating free fatty acids contributes to a slowing of metabolism and a shift away from the use of glucose for energy.“ -Ray Peat
Sugar for carbs would be my first thought. It is instantaneous energy and mental clarity for me.
Clean gut is important, too. Constipation and high endotoxin lead to depressed/suppressed days for me. I am either better able to notice this lately, or I’m just older and more susceptible.
Coffee works for me, too, which I take with milk (cafe au lait) and orange juice for the carbs.
Good sleep is crucial. This is the elusive puzzle piece for me. When I achieve seven hours continuous, my metabolism peaks and I have almost no complaints.
@Lilac I’m with you on the sleep really making a difference. Since getting my sleep fixed a couple of years ago I even look different. My face lost it’s longness and I have a stronger jawline and my face is more triangular now. The body is so fascinating!
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