- Research from Duke University has found new information about when this process actually starts and when we can actually blame age for an expanding waistline.
- Infants actually have the highest metabolism according to the new research.
- Metabolism rates don’t significantly decline until a person reaches their late 50s to 60s.
Many of us think of metabolism as peaking during teenage years when people can “eat anything” without gaining weight and then seeing a slowdown in the metabolic system in midlife in the 30s and 40s as it becomes difficult to keep weight off.
But now, new research finds these long-held ideas about metabolism and age might be incorrect.
But research from Duke University has found new information about when this process actually starts and when we can actually blame age for an expanding waistline.
“We wanted to understand how our bodies change over the lifespan,” study coauthor Herman Pontzer, PhD, associate professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke University, told Healthline.
Pontzer and an international team of scientists analyzed the average calories burned by more than 6,600 people ranging from 1 week old to 95 years old as they went about their daily lives in 29 countries worldwide.
Source: healthline