Metabolic Age — Ultrahuman
Writer: Alina Gufran
Summary:
- What is metabolism
- What is metabolic health?
- Metabolism and energy expenditure
- What is chronological age
- What is metabolic age?
- BMR & Metabolic Age
- What is an ideal metabolic age?
- What does metabolic age mean for your health?
- How can you improve your metabolic age?
- Conclusion
Chronological age might give you the number of years since you were born, but it will not give you a statistic on whether you are metabolically healthy or not. That’s where metabolic age comes in. Metabolic age is one of the emerging markers of metabolic health and metabolism. Let’s understand these two terms, their relationship with how your body utilises energy before we get into metabolic age.
Metabolism is a series of chemical processes in each cell transforming the calories we eat into fuel to keep us alive. These processes sustain life, everyday functioning and include breaking down food and drink to energy and building or repairing our bodies.
Metabolic health is described as having ideal levels of blood sugar, triglycerides, high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, blood pressure, and waist circumference, without using medications.
Metabolism and energy expenditure
Metabolism provides the energy your body needs to breathe, circulate blood, grow and repair cells, and everything else it does to survive. There are two processes of metabolism — Catabolism, and Anabolism. The body regulates both processes carefully to make sure they remain in balance.
- The disintegrated molecules are taken up by cells and converted to smaller molecules, usually acetyl coenzyme A (acetyl-CoA), which releases some energy.
- Stage of energy storage — The released energy is stored for basic building blocks needed for growth and repair.
- Production of predecessors like amino acids, monosaccharides, isoprenoids and nucleotides
- Stimulation of these precursors into reactive forms using energy from ATP
- Congregation of these precursors into complex molecules such as proteins, lipids, polysaccharides and nucleic acid.
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