Metabolism is the process by which your body converts what you eat and drink into energy. Increasing metabolism has many benefits. So, here are the top 5 foods that can help your metabolism to increase naturally
Chia seeds
Chia seeds have been called runners’ food. Now, chia is an interesting seed, it’s actually a seed of the sage plant. Chia, when you consume it, can be digested whole. What that means is, these tiny seeds can be consumed and they’re hard, so you need to sort of suck on them, so to speak, and then when you swallow them, the majority of them will be digested.st-new.php
Chia also holds about eight times its weight in water, containing mucilaginous fiber. The story goes that people would go on long treks up to 26 miles, which we now call a marathon, and they would only carry a little sack of chia seed, that would be it. They would eat it, and therefore, called runners’ food. Good source of fiber, high in omega-3 fats, and an easily absorbed starch component that gives you sustained energy.
We use chia as part of baking, so it’s so useful. I recommend two to three tablespoons of chia a day, once or twice. If you’re doing an event, an athletic event, a hike, etc. It’s a great energy source and it’s good for the gut.
Coconut oil
This is a perfect pairing with chia seed. In fact, there’s a great recipe where you take ground chia, coconut oil, put a little cacao and honey, and make sort of these chia balls. Those are the ultimate pre-run or pre-workout food. So if you’re going to have an athletic event, play some flag football, play some basketball, or if you’re a teenager and you’re in high school sports or a pro, I think carb-loading is out, fat loading is in. Coconut oil is a great source of energy due to its medium chain triglycerides which are burned differently and more efficiently than longer chain fats.
So if you like MCTs, the best way to get them is through organic extra virgin coconut oil, or coconut meat, or coconut butter. Coconut is an awesome food to boost your metabolism because, not only will it help you eat less, as will chia seed, but it is known as the fat that helps you burn fat and boost thyroid production. So coconut oil is great, cook with it, use it in smoothies, eat it off the spoon.
Bone Broth
Bone broth is known as a serum soluble liquid. Serum solubility means that the nutrients and compounds are in solution the way your body is used to getting nutrients. So all of the collagen, all of the chondroitin and glucosamine, all of the amino acids, proline and glycine, the hyaluronic acid for your joints and your skin, as well as the minerals potassium and sodium, are there for you.
Bone broth is the ultimate energy and workout beverage. You’re consuming sports drinks, and they have sugar, sometimes they have artificial or natural non-caloric sweeteners but they don’t have protein, they don’t have organic minerals. Bone broth does. I think bone broth is the best beverage for fitness and for metabolism because when you consume bone broth you’re getting protein and all of these other nutrients and compounds, and you’re improving your gut health, and you feel so light, so assimilable.
Consume bone broth one to three cups a day. Make it yourself, there are recipes on draxe.com. You can buy it in your local health food or grocery store, or consume a powdered protein from bone broth.
Ginger
Ginger is a warming herb in Ayurvedic medicine. It is one of two botanicals as part of a formula called Trika 2. It’s actually ginger, black pepper, and long pepper, two versions of peppers, that has been shown to increase metabolic efficiency which I believe will help you burn fat and improve digestion. It’s been shown that Trika 2 helps improve nutrient utilization of protein, carbs, and fats, as well as vitamins and minerals.
Ginger is great for the gut, it’s great for the lungs, it’s great for the heart. It’s anti-inflammatory but it’s also warming and metabolism boosting. You can make sort of a ginger tea or decoction, and really boil a lot of the water out. Combine it with honey, it is so good. Use ginger essential oil along with honey. It is so good for hundreds of reasons. One of them is as a metabolism booster.
Hot peppers
Probably my favorite metabolism booster is hot peppers. You’ll need a little bit and it helps you generate internal heat called “thermogenesis” which helps you burn fat, drive circulation.
Cayenne pepper is good for so many things, including the heart. Make sure to add pepper to a lot of different dishes and pepper capsicum is one of the richest sources in vitamin C and it is powerful in its antioxidants. You can even use compounds from pepper called capsaicin on your pain because it drives that heat where it needs to go.
Conclusion
Chia seeds. Eat them before meals or with meals. They help you feel full, they’re great in smoothies, they give you sustained energy with their fiber, omega-3s, and their amylose source of starch.
Coconut oil, the ultimate fat to burn fat, good for your thyroid, easy source of energy before an athletic event. Fat-load with coconut, don’t carb-load with pasta.
Bone broth, serum soluble nutrition to boost yourselves with collagen, chondroitin, powerful amino acids, glucosamine, hyaluronic acid, and energize you with electrolytes. Consume bone broth before meals, and I bet you’re less hungry.
Ginger is one of my favorite herbs to warm you up. Consume it in a tea, ginger chews. You can even get some ginger candies that are naturally sweetened. You can make ginger tea, take ginger supplements. Bottom line, get more ginger, good for the gut, we know that, good for the heart, good for your metabolism.
Hot peppers, Chili, we’re talking about chipotle, habanero, jalapeno. Stay away from those ghost peppers unless you have a taste for extreme heat. because And also cayenne, which I absolutely love, good for the heart. Actually a natural source of salicylic acid which is similar to aspirin, it’s the main ingredient. Hot peppers help you generate internal heat. Sprinkle some in your food, there certainly are supplements. Or find a topical cream to help you with your pain. But hot peppers boost your metabolism while adding antioxidants.
