What Causes Slow Metabolism?

It's not that a slow metabolism causes you to gain body fat and gain weight. It's the other way around. Our metabolism runs this way, but if you undertake behaviors, you're not getting enough sleep, you're overly stressed, what happens is you gain body fat and it's body fat that crushes your metabolism completely the other way around than what we thought. So being overweight slows your metabolism down. That's right. So the good news, by the way, with this discovery is that it means that suddenly we have a new ability, a newfound ability to be able to control our metabolism because if we we can actually right size our body fat, because this is the other point. Fat isn't our enemy. Fat's in fact a critical part of our health, except when we have too much of it. So what you want to do is sort of like shave it back down, tune it down, turn the volume down. And as you do that, your metabolism rises because that's the hard wiring in our body.