Quotes About Metabolism

Plants eat light, father says, but even plants can overeat.

Multi-joint movements - squats, push-ups, bent over rows - all put a greater metabolic demand on the body and can be effective when performed with very light weight to get you back up and running. Think bigger movements, not bigger weight, when you are on the mend.

Believe it or not, I've got a really bad metabolism. One burger and I'm done. I'm not a guy that puts away 10 burgers.

I can eat anything. After practice I can stop at McDonald's. I don't have a problem with gaining weight, thank God.

My father is still so much a part of me - from my physique and fast metabolism, which I'm so thankful for now, to my sense of connection to the universe.

Thankfully I have good genes and a fast metabolism, which doesn't make me put on weight easily.

life span is determined by a fixed amount of metabolic activity: eat less, slow your metabolism, and you may live longer.

Acetaldehyde also depletes niacin, or vitamin B3, which your cells need to burn fat and sugar for energy—and when your cells can't burn fat stores, you gain weight and feel lethargic. Niacin also plays an important role in the production of serotonin, a neurotransmitter that affects mood and sleep, as well as the production of a coenzyme

Want to increase your CLA to rev up metabolic rate? 1. Eat CLA-rich grass-fed beef and pastured butter and cream. Also be on the lookout for grass-fed, non-denatured whey. 2. Consider CLA supplements from conjugated safflower or sunflower oil. I recommend 3,000 mg daily. But, just be careful. With many of my clients, you lose weight so quickly you will go down a pants size or two in no time!

Okay, back to business. Billy grins, leaning back against the cushions. Give me two more characteristics of living things. I'll give you a hint: you left out the most fun one. Fun one? Im picturing the textbook, responsiveness, growth, complex organizations, metabolism, responsiveness... Oh! I hit Billy. You are such a perv! Who me? What are you talking about? The most fun one? Reproduction? Hey, even microorganisms gotta have fun, right?

Krebs cycle, discovered in 1937 by Hans Krebs but invented over millions of years of evolution at the dawn of life. It is the eight-stroke chemical reaction that turns fuel into energy in the process of metabolism that is essential to all life, from bacteria to redwoods.

The more intensely you exercise, the more carbohydrates and sugar you burn for energy; the less intense the exertion, the more fat is metabolized as energy.

Lower caloric exposure and episodic fasting can extend the life span of all animals, the longer we spend in the catabolic state, the longer we live.

He had gone to several universities . . . and had found only curves and credits. He had become drunk on the idea of God and found only theology. He had risen several times on the subtle and powerful wings of lust, expectant of magnificence, achieving only discharge. A few times he had extended friendship with palpitating hope, only to find that no one quite knew what he had in mind. His solitude now was the result of his metabolism, that constant breathing in of joy and exhalation of sadness.

American doctors did not of course know then what the Germans had discovered after the battle of Stalingrad. The combination of stress, exhaustion, cold and malnourishment upsets the metabolism, and gravely reduces the body's capacity to absorb calories and vitamins.

For the roots of plants are analogous to what is called the mouth in an animal, being the organ by which food is admitted.

As we lower our carbohydrate intake, we burn more fat and less glucose from carbs.

Most of the people don't know that one of the great qualities of caffeine is it allows you to absorb nutrients, and it does it quickly, and so when it does it quickly, you focus, and when you focus, you think you have energy.

It's genetic. I exercise, but I gain mass very quickly.

The human brain is at particularly high risk for damage by free radicals because of its high degree of metabolism compared to other tissues, while lacking the levels of antioxidant protection found elsewhere in the body.

Antioxidants are chemicals that break down or neutralize the damaging effects of free radicals - chemicals produced as a byproduct of normal cellular metabolism.

If I don't work out, I lose weight instead of gaining it.

I've been lucky that I haven't put on weight. I think it's the genes.

Proteins are constantly being degraded. Therefore, simultaneous production of proteins is required.