“As long as you're engaging in healthy habits for your body, fueling your body in a good way, doing any movement that you love, we know that you're healthy; and that can look different in lots of different sizes.”
Are we obssessing over the speed of our metabolism more than we should? Does our metabolism really slow as we age?
In today's conversation, Cassie is joined by Elaina Efird RDN, CD, CEDRD, CSSD, an eating disorders specialist dietitian who practices in Burlington, Vermont as the Lead Dietitian at the Kahm Clinic. Elaina's mission is to help people attain optimal health using effective and technologically sophisticated treatment methods. She has expertise and long term experience in treating eating disorders and disordered eating patterns using metabolic testing and body composition analysis.
Elaina prides herself on helping people understand their own bodies while motivating them to reach healthy goals. Elaina explains how metabolic testing is used to measure how many calories someone is burning to see if they are burning more or less than they should.
Elaina goes on to explain how eating disorders and disordered eating can impact your metabolism and reminds us that when a person is underfed, they are more likely to use their lean mass (muscles, brain, organ tissue, etc.) to fuel the body.
Whether you're curious to learn more about how your body works or you want to learn how to optimise your metabolism, we urge you to give this conversation a listen.
You can find more from Elaina on Tiktok and Instagram
Episode Highlights:
- Dietitian’s definition of metabolism
- The impact of calorie restriction on our metabolism
- Debunking common diets
- How to increase your metabolism if it's slowed down
- The relationship between weight and health
- The long term consequences of dieting
- How to measure your metabolism
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