Best food to improve your metabolism

[JuanFitbit]

Hi everyone! 

A lot of us have done diets at least 1 time in our life, due health, fitness, looks, etc. 

When trying to maintain or reduce weight, we sometimes forget how important our metabolism has to be taken into consideration. 

There are a lot of lists around the web of products that might improve, bust your metabolism. But some of them they don't tell you examples of the recommendations, e.g  zink or iron rich foods , etc. I think it would be easier to follow if the give an example like spinach. 

I've noticed, that coffee, spicy food, tea and ginger have helped me with my metabolism. I think it's maybe because it accelerates my heart rate. 

 

 

 

What has helped you?

Do you have any special receipt?

I'll like to read more examples that you all use. 

[t.parker]

Improve by how much? 5%? 10%? Improve how? Yes, certain foods can increase metabolism, and no, because the increase is so insignificant that close to none. The scientific evidence behind it is very weak (if any) and we have very little control over our metabolism. There are other factors playing a significant role like age, gender, our genes which we cannot control. Higher HR indeed is tied to the higher metabolism but then how much higher it gets? If you get extra 20-30 beats more because of eating spicy food I highly recommend stopping eating such food because this isn't a healthy heart response (and consult your cardiologist), if you get 1-2 beats more then it is still variation you can get just out of standing up off the chair. In other words - those foods make no difference when it comes to weight loss. Yes, they are tasty and I won't stop anyone from eating it (I like spicy food, too) but don't tell people it will help them losing weight because it's a myth.

This is another misinforming thread started by Fitbit (after the one about losing abdominal fat through exercise 😒) suggesting something that has very little to no effect, yet making a big deal of it. Do some research first before you post something like that. What's next? Food with "negative calories"?

[Heybales]

Curious what 10mg capsaicin per kg would look like for me to eat?

Pretty sure the visits to the bathroom would be the increase to my daily burn.

Love how the study didn't equate for calories eaten in the rats. Poorly done study if purpose was regarding weight loss which it doesn't appear to be, rather than merely fat breakdown. Which ok, is your body using more fat by burning more to use that increased fat broken down?

Ditto's to attempting to major in the minors.

While true there are stimulates used in diets for when the body attempts to slow things down because it's stressed out by an extreme diet, and stimulates keep it going anyway - the body under that kind of stress usually wins in the end.

Better solution don't scare the body so much that it reaches the point it's actually slowing the metabolism down.

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/pr901175w

It is well recognized that capsaicin increases thermogenesis through enhancement of catecholamine secretion from the adrenal medulla. In the present study of the antiobesity effect of capsaicin, rats (5-week old) received capsaicin (10 mg/kg) along with a high-fat diet (HFD). In comparison with saline-treated rats, body weight of those in the capsaicin-treated group decreased by 8%. We performed differential proteomic analysis using two-dimensional electrophoresis (2-DE) combined with MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry to elucidate the molecular action of capsaicin on the antiobesity effect in epididymal white adipose tissue (WAT). Protein mapping of WAT homogenates using 2-DE revealed significant alterations to a number of proteins: 10 spots were significantly up-regulated and 10 spots were remarkably down-regulated in HFD fed rats treated with capsaicin. Among them, significant down-regulation of heat shock protein 27 (Hsp27) and Steap3 protein, as well as up-regulation of olfactory receptor (Olr1434) in obese WAT was reported for the first time in association with obesity. Most of the identified proteins are associated with lipid metabolism and redox regulation, in which levels of vimentin, peroxiredoxin, and NAD(P)H:quinone oxidoreductase 1 (NQO1) were significantly reduced (>2-fold), whereas aldo-keto reductase, flavoprotein increased with capsaicin treatment. These data demonstrate that thermogenesis and lipid metabolism related proteins were markedly altered upon capsaicin treatment in WAT, suggesting that capsaicin may be a useful phytochemical for attenuation of obesity.

[JuanFitbit]

@t.parker , thank  you for your comment and feedback! Please keep in mind that the Health and Wellness boards are used to find motivation and advice to hit your goals. Please note that this thread was created, to so that members can share their ideas, tips and experiences. 

@Heybales , Thanks for sharing the information about capsaicin. Didn't know there was that much research done in that field. Will have to look deeper into it.