The Boom Boom Performance Podcast

Everyone tends to believe that your metabolism slows down as you age and therefore stops you from being able to get leaner or lose weight… So, is this actually true? Does research truly support this? Yes, it does - but only on the extreme ends (young/old). And today, we dive into this question and a recent study that comes from the Pontzer study in Science - listen in for details and read below for more information on the specific study we’re reviewing. Study Design: Data was taken from the IAEA Doubly Labelled Water Database in April of 2020. At this time the database had 6,742 measurements of TDEE, fat free mass, fat mass, sex, and age. The authors investigated the effects of age, body composition, and sex on TDEE and its components, using a large (n = 6,421; 64% female), geographically and economical diverse (29 countries) database of doubly labelled water measurements for subjects up to 95 years old, calculating total expenditure from isotopic measurements using a single equation. Analysis: The authors us