Amount of Energy: variable but as much as 1300 to 2000 calories per day:
Can I Increase It? Yes, some of the factors are genes, age, and gender related, however, this is the area where changing the type of foods, intervals, medications & supplements can raise your metabolism significantly. HCG may act at this level to increase metabolism. Dr. Simeons reported an increase of 30%.
2. Digestion of food: 10% of Daily Calories ~ 140-200 calories/day:
This is the energy needed to digest, metabolize, store and process food.
Amount of energy: not much variation
Can I Increase it? YES, by selecting better foods and drinks, changing eating times and eating intervals.
3. Daily Activities: 15-30% ~150 to 300 calories/day
This is the energy people use for daily activities. People with sedentary jobs expend only a few hundred calories. People with strenuous jobs may burn up to 1000 a day. This is also called NEAT (short for Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis). This is not the energy expenditure with planned exercise.
Amount of energy: extremely variable
Can I Increase it? YES, very easy to move around more, take stairs instead of elevator, park further from office or school. Even just walking 10 minutes 3 to 4 times a day adds hundreds of calories.
4. Planned Exercise: 0 to unlimited/day.
This is the traditional “exercise” component. It is not the exercise that occurs with activities of daily living, but the energy expended by walking or jogging around the neighborhood, playing sports, going to the gym.
Amount of energy: Can be “0” to unlimited
Can I Increase It? Of course, just do some simple exercises as outline in chapter 11.
Many Factors Acting Together Can Affect Your Metabolism.
•Age- younger people have a higher metabolism than older people have.
•Genetics- the one most important determinate of metabolism and body weight.
•Gender- men have higher metabolism than women.
•Job activities-many jobs simply are so sedentary that they burn few calories.
•Medications- numerous medications lower metabolism.
•Medical problems- diabetes, hypertension, arthritis, low thyroid = lower metabolism.
•Vitamins, minerals are vital for healthy metabolism.
•Skipping meals, eating in the middle of the night, eating large carb breakfasts.
•Inadequate protein also lowers metabolism.
•Large, high carb meals or snacks lower metabolism.
Calculating Your Metabolism and Calorie Needs
How to Calculate Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR)
The first step in deciding if you have a slow metabolism is to calculate how many calories you need a day to maintain your body weight and your daily energy expenditure. Your total daily energy expenditure is called your TDEE. It is the total number of calories that your body expends in 24 hours, including all activities, digestion of food, calories for heart beat,
temperature, brain activity and more. According to exercise physiologists William McArdle and Frank Katch, the average maintenance level for women in the United States is 2000-2100 calories per day and the average for men are 2700-2900 per day. These are only averages; caloric expenditure can vary widely and is much higher for athletes or extremely active individuals.
Do You Have One of the Causes of A Slow Metabolism?
HCG May Reverse the Effect of Aging on Your Metabolism
Of all of the factors affecting daily metabolism, the most well known one and least understood is the gradual slowing of metabolism seen with aging. Aging is directly linked to a slower metabolism. Look at the table. Note the difference in metabolism between women and men and the fall in metabolism as one ages. There is a 2-3% drop of basal metabolic rate every ten years... The reason for this slow down is a loss of muscle mass and a decrease in physical activity. Eat a little too much food as you age and you have a formula for significant weight gain. HCG can help increase metabolism. Dr. Simeons wrote this may me as high as 30%
HCG May Erase Effect of Gender On Your Metabolism
There are relatively small differences in metabolism between men and women. On the average, women's total metabolism (the number of calories burned for basal metabolism, respiration, heart beat, maintaining body temperature, digestion and daily activities is around 5 to 10 percent lower than men's.) This is explained by differences in fat and muscle mass between the two sexes. Muscle mass and bones size are far larger in men than in women, even of equal weight. Women have a higher percentage of body fat than men. Because of these differences in muscle mass, a male simply burns up more calories at rest than a female. HCG may make a real difference in weigh loss especially for women, because as Dr. Simeons pointed out it rapidly produces fat loss from around the abdomen and buttocks the source of the slow metabolism.
HCG is The Ideal Diet To Increase the Slowing of Metabolism Seen with Menopause
When a women’s menstrual periods have stopped for a year or when her blood shows high levels of LH and FSH hormones she is said to be in the menopause. LH and FSH are hormones called gonadotropins that are made by the pituitary gland in the middle of the brain, these are the real gonadotropins. They stimulate the ovaries to make estrogens and produce eggs. Remember HCG is normally made by the placenta in pregnant women and is not found normally anywhere in the body and is really not a “gonadotropin.” Falling estrogens and rising FSH and LH usually occurs between 45- 55 years, but there is a lot of variation. The result is called menopause.
Unintentional Weight Gain.
Women begin to experience hot flashes, night sweats, fatigue, mood changes and weight gain due to increasing levels of FSH. Estrogens are responsible for fat distribution in females- the “pear shape” where most of the fat on the buttocks and thighs rather than the “apple shape” where most of the fat is around the abdomen.
The pituitary Gland attempts to reverse these processes by making more and more FSH and LSH in an attempt to get the ovaries functioning again and increase estrogen production. This causes more and more symptoms and weight gain.
Fat Cells throughout the body enlarge and have the ability to make estrogens and are stimulated to get larger so they can make more estrogens (they are poor producers of estrogens) —the result is weight gain.
Male Androgens hormones and Testosterone Women and men both have estrogens and androgens- each are held in check by normal body processes. During menopause this whole balance breaks down as estrogens fall, and the effects of androgens increase. What effects? Growth of dark hairs on arms, and face, thinning of hair and most important fat deposition around the abdomen and resulting weight gain. Since testosterone helps create muscle mass (think of the weight lifters taking these medications illegally) there is fall in muscle mass and a fall in metabolism.