Ready for a metabolism reset? It’s completely possible to make a big difference by making a modest change to what you eat. This doesn’t mean that you need to scrap entire meals, nor does it mean that you need to eat an ultra-restrictive diet. It also doesn’t involve cutting out any specific foods, food groups or macronutrients. According to scientists that recently published the outcome of their research, it’s far more straightforward than that.
A Metabolism Reset Can Be Found in Your Calories
If you’re about to shake your head and think you’ve caught on to some scheme to get you to deeply slash your calories in the name of a metabolism reset, don’t worry. That’s not what this is about. Instead, just a modest reduction can give your metabolic rate a substantial boost. Even better? The same researchers found that this boost stems from the help the slight calorie reduction gives your immune system.
The researchers, who published their study in the Science journal, found that restricting calories modestly will provide a kind of metabolism reset by charging up the immune system. The key is to be pretty consistent about keeping up the caloric reduction. It won’t happen in the first week, but it will happen in as little as two years, and it is beneficial to people at any age. In fact, it is even believed to be able help reduce some of the aging of the immune system too.
What Did the Research Find?
The researchers found that people who cut back their calorie intake by about 14 percent for two years or more were producing more T cells. Those are critical parts of the immune system and are also related to slowing the aging process. The participants didn’t have to eat less, only fewer calories.
Moreover, this was helpful at any age. The thymus will shrink as the body ages. The thymus is where T cells are produced. As it shrinks, fewer T cells result. This helps to explain why we are at a greater risk of infection and certain cancers as we age. However, the calorie restriction was found to prevent that shrinking of the thymus, meaning that more T cells continue to be produced. That could reduce the risk of infection struggles and certain cancers as you age.
Furthermore, T cells play another role in our body. When they are produced in large numbers, they can offer us a metabolism reset. T cells require fatty acids for energy. When their numbers increase, so do their energy needs. Therefore, instead of sending that energy into storage around organs such as the liver, or around the muscle – which can cause obesity, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes and aging – the energy is used by the T cells that are strengthening the immune system. At the same time, this bumps up the metabolic rate, giving us a fat burning advantage!
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