Do you tend to put on weight easily and have trouble losing it? Do you find it difficult to digest and have little energy overall?
This is probably due to a slow metabolism.
In this article, we reveal our top tips for speeding up your metabolism and promoting weight loss!
You will also discover D-LAB's essential cures: the Fat Burner Program and Enzymatic Slimming Complex.
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I. What is metabolism?
Metabolism is the process by which our bodies convert food into energy. The body draws on the calories ingested to provide the energy needed for muscles, brain, cells and organs to function properly.
To this basic metabolism must be added the energy expenditure associated with physical activity.
Metabolism is more or less rapid, depending on the frequency of exercise, age and size of the individual.
A slow metabolism means that the body easily stores fat as energy reserves. It is also characterized by slow digestion and difficulty in building firm muscle mass.
If you have a slow metabolism, don't panic! There are many tips to stimulate your metabolism and thus promote weight loss.
II. How to boost your metabolism
1. Physical activity
One of the easiest ways to speed up your metabolism is to play sports regularly and get more exercise. Physical activity is essential to speed up your metabolism. By increasing your caloric expenditure, your body will tap into your fat stores. You will lose weight and gain muscle mass.
Strength sports, such as weight training, are particularly recommended to replace fat with muscle. They allow you to increase your calorie consumption at rest. In this way, the sugars ingested will go into the muscles to supply them with energy and your body will not store fat.
2. Feeding
Diet is clearly a key factor in our metabolism. If you want to increase your metabolism, focus on low-carb, high-protein foods .
Carbohydrates slow down the metabolism and lead to an increase in body fat, while proteins increase the percentage of energy consumed by 15 to 30%.
If reducing your carbohydrate intake is difficult, choose complex carbohydrates such as wholegrain cereals, which are rich in fibre and increase the feeling of fullness.
There are also foods known as "carb blockers". They help to achieve a low-carb diet by inhibiting the digestion of starches and blocking complex carbohydrates.
The most popular is white bean extract, which is contained in our Enzymatic Slimming Complex. It contains an enzyme that prevents the body from turning carbohydrates into sugars. It also prevents the process by which sugars are stored as fat.
On the other hand, certain foods are known to improve metabolism: they're called "fat burners"! These foods stimulate thermogenesis, a mechanism by which the body produces heat. As a result, metabolism increases and so does energy combustion. This optimizes weight loss.
Some of the best known are:
- Chillies: The active ingredient in chili is capsaicin, a chemical component that gives chili its distinctive taste and burning sensation. As capsaicin raises your body temperature, its consumption triggers a heat surge, requiring the body to produce energy.
- Kola nut: Rich in caffeine, kola nut has lipolytic properties: it stimulates and accelerates fat burning to produce energy.
- Green tea: The theine it contains increases the basal metabolic rate, which promotes energy expenditure. The tannins contained in green tea reduce the body's ability to assimilate fats.
- Pineapple: Its stem contains bromelain, nicknamed the "fat-eating enzyme" because it literally attacks proteins during digestion. Pineapple is the ultimate fat-burning food.
- Papaya: Papaya pulp contains the enzyme papain, which dissolves proteins, accelerates digestion and promotes absorption, a process that increases metabolism and burns fat.
III. Food supplements: a simple, effective solution
Lack of time or means, changing your lifestyle is not always easy...
Consuming natural food supplements is a simple and effective way to boost your metabolism and help you burn fat, even at rest! That's why D-LAB offers a wide range of nutritional supplements to meet your needs.
This programme is made up of 30 ingredients that work in synergy to stimulate the metabolism and promote sustainable weight loss.
- l’Metabolism Activator increases the body's metabolic rate thanks to its composition of highly-dosed vitamins and minerals. Thanks to active ingredients such as kola nut, cayenne pepper, mate and ginseng, it stimulates thermogenesis, a mechanism by which the body produces heat.
- The Active Energy Complex acts on fat burning to help lose weight.
- Finally, the Slimming Detox improves digestion and promotes the elimination of toxins accumulated daily. A clean body eliminates better and faster.
85% notice a slimmer figure and a clear reduction in localized curves*.
The Enzymatic Slimming Complex :
This innovative formula is rich in digestive enzymes 100% of natural origin allowing the control and the loss of weight. Its active ingredients promote digestion and fat burning and fight against cellulite:
- Lipase breaks down fat molecules, triglycerides, into simpler molecules used as an energy source.
- Papain and bromelain are powerful plant enzymes derived from papaya and pineapple, which limit the formation and storage of triglycerides in the body. They help eliminate fat and drain excess water. The combination of these two actions is invaluable in the fight against cellulite.
- White bean extract helps reduce the amount of sugar absorbed by the body and stored as triglycerides
- Kola extract is an excellent stimulant for weight loss. It acts as a genuine metabolism booster, accelerating caloric expenditure and activating fat burning.
