Hello Readers! It’s been a minute or two since I last posted, but I’m happy to be back to it! This has been summer of crazy schedules, crazy weather, and lots and lots to keep me super busy, but also super healthy and happy to share my passion of all things nutrition, fitness, and wellness with my clients and friends.

Honestly, one of the most popular conversations that I’ve have this summer concerns metabolism. How it works, how to make it work better, and why it slows down as we age. So, I thought I’d speak a bit on that today…

Did you know? After age 25, our metabolism-which is the rate at which our bodies change food into energy-begins to slow-in fact, it slows about 5% each decade. As the rate drops, and our metabolism slows, the food that is not converted into energy becomes excess weight, which becomes extra fat in our bodies. This explains those extra stubborn pounds that many gain as the decades march on. 

But it’s not impossible to reverse this decline as you age! If you want to give your metabolic rate a kick…