Let’s clear the air: when most people hear “metabolism,” they think about how fast they digest food, losing weight or how hard it is to lose that stubborn 10 lbs. Metabolism is like the engine of a car. Your metabolic health is how well that engine runs.

True metabolic health is how well your body produces and uses energy, and it affects everything:

Metabolic health effects your mood through blood sugar regulation, this regulation causes steady energy and mental clarity avoiding the nasty spikes and crashes that cause, irritability, anxiety, brain fog, and even depressive symptoms.

Another nasty product of poor metabolic health is chronic low grade inflammation. This inflammation has been shown to disrupt neurotransmitters and their production.The two most important neurotransmitters that are disrupted are serotonin and dopamine, which are crucial for mood regulation and a laundry list of other processes in the brain and body. This has been tied to increased risk of depression and fatigue.

Neurotransmitter production is disrupted in the gut microbiome. A disrupted microbiome (often manifests in insulin resistance or obesity) can send stress signals to the brain. This disruption of neurotransmitters contributes to mood swings, anxiety, and even cognitive decline.

Another set of chemicals in the body that are disrupted with poor metabolic health are your hormones. The big ones being thyroid hormones and your sexual hormones (estrogen and testosterone) everyone has both in certain ratios (1-300:1 for men and 1;10-20 for women), this disruption can even mess with this ratio causing low libido, fatigue, and muscle loss for both sexes

All of these cascading effects will elevate cortisol, affecting our sleep. This blow to sleep quality and subsequent lack of restorative sleep is arguably the worst effect of poor metabolic health.

Without restorative sleep the health risks compound leading to irritability, poor stress tolerance, low energy levels, how well you recover ,even your long-term health

To keep it simple, it is when your blood sugar, insulin, triglycerides, blood pressure, and waistline are all in a healthy range without medication.

Here’s the kicker: over 90% of U.S. adults don’t meet that criteria.

That means most people feel sluggish, crave sugar often, have poor sleep, and struggle with stubborn fat because their metabolism is out of whack or constantly in flux, and not because they lack willpower.

My advice:
Start treating your metabolism like the command center of your health. Almost everything in the body is affected by its health.

Next week, I’ll show you how to eat in a way that keeps you full and supports a strong, healthy metabolism.

P.S. Sound like someone you know? Forward them this email, they’ll thank you later.