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Jan 2025
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#200: 200TH EPISODE BEST OF: Metabolism

Dr. Shannon Ritchey, PT, DPT
About this episode

In honor of our 200th podcast episode, I'm doing a series of "best of," where I summarize some of our most popular topics on the show. The episodes about metabolism are some of the most popular. Today, I discuss how we burn calories, how your metabolism changes as you age, and how muscle ACTUALLY influences metabolism.

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0:00: Introduction 
2:25: The science of how we burn calories 
6:42: How our metabolism changes as we age 
11:40: How muscle effects metabolism 
14:20: Takeaways 

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