You count calories, exercise regularly, and try to make healthy choices, but the scale won’t budge. Maybe you’ve even heard that your metabolism is just “naturally slow,” or that age, genetics, or some invisible factor is working against you. It’s frustrating, discouraging, and, quite frankly, unfair.

But what if much of what we believe about metabolism isn’t true? For years, popular advice has suggested that eating small, frequent meals revs up metabolism, that cardio is the key to fat loss, and that aging dooms us to a sluggish metabolic rate. Yet, science tells a very different story—one that puts you back in control.

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