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An inefficient metabolism can lead to the fact that the energy from the food cannot be used optimally by the body. This means that these people do not gain weight despite high calorie intake.

In a modern lifestyle, where we have an excess of calories, this is of course an advantage, we envy the people who can feed like a barn harvester without gaining an ounce. From an evolutionary point of view, however, it is actually a disadvantage.

For our ancestors, who as hunters and gatherers found only very irregular food, it was vital for their survival that the body could build up reserves for bad times.

If we consume more energy than our body can burn in that moment, it is stored as fat. While this never became a problem for the Stone Age man, since fat reserves were very quickly reduced again during an active lifestyle and an irregular intake of food, this is exactly what is fatal for us as modern humans.

Since we always have high-calorie foods with a high fat and sugar content at our disposal and we hardly move around in our everyday lives, our body builds up excessive fat reserves.

Not only does this make us feel uncomfortable and flabby and make us pinch our waistband, it also has negative effects on the metabolic processes described above. The metabolism slows down and burns less and less energy, which only increases our problems. If this condition persists for years or even decades, it can also lead to serious diseases such as diabetes or gout.

All the more reasons, therefore, to boost your metabolism through proper nutrition and physical exercise, so you can not only achieve your desired weight without starvation cures, but also ensure that your metabolism functions well into old age - and you stay healthy and fit.