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Can I speed up my metabolism?

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You Can't Boost Your Metabolism

Sometimes a tiny effect seen in a study gets blown out of proportion, particularly by companies that have products to set sure your body might spend a few extra calories today after a spicy lunch. We don't have any data to say that would have the same effect every day for the next 30 years. So no, you can't boost your metabolism. It just kind of keeps sticking along like a metronome and till you have one of those life events like being a toddler or getting pregnant, to change the beat. But you can slow your metabolism down, way down. And it was an awful reality show where whoever lost the most weight by percentage of their starting weight, one 250 thousand dollars.

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