{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Longevity Loop with Satbir Kahlon","title":"Ep 9: The Metabolism Loop: The Fuel Every Other Loop Depends On","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1525,"description":"You eat well. You train. Nothing is moving. And somewhere along the way, someone told you your metabolism was just slow.It is not slow. It is uninformed. And that is a completely different problem with a completely different solution.In this episode, we go deep on the Metabolism Loop, the M in the PRIME framework and the one loop that determines what your body actually does with every input you give it. You will walk away with the science of how metabolism really works, four myths that have kept people trapped for decades, the Metabolic Bank Account concept, a protein breakdown with the exact numbers, the hormonal layer most people never address, and a four-dimensional Metabolism Scorecard you can use today.IN THIS EPISODE:Why metabolism is not a speed setting. It is your body's energy management system, the system that decides what your body does with the fuel you give it. And why that framing changes everything.What Basal Metabolic Rate actually is, why it accounts for 60 to 70 per cent of your total daily energy expenditure, and why the biggest lever in your metabolism is not the gym. It is muscle.Four myths dismantled with the full mechanism: why calories in, calories out is dangerously incomplete; why eating less forever is a withdrawal, not a strategy; why detoxes do not reset your metabolism; and why six small meals do not speed anything up.The reframe that millions of people need to hear. Your metabolism is adaptive, not broken. The metabolic slowdown from years of restriction is the body protecting you, not failing you. Change the environment, change the outcome.The Metabolic Bank Account. Sleep is a deposit. Muscle is a deposit. Protein is a deposit. Consistent movement is a deposit. Chronic restriction, poor sleep, and unmanaged stress are withdrawals. Most people are trying to make a large withdrawal from an account they have been quietly overdrawn on for years.Protein and the Metabolism Loop. Why protein has the highest thermic effect of any...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/i7nc7cudbn4QquY2gFiWbDlqx2DThMPcY9UORP-D_fE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xNzZh/ODBjMTExNDkxYmNm/YTZiNGMwNjAwOTBj/MDBkMi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}