EP #5: Understanding Aging and Metabolism: A Deep Dive with Martha Savloff

Ever wondered why you can't eat like you did in high school and still stay slim? Are you struggling to understand how aging impacts your metabolism? Well, you're in the right place! In our latest episode, we're joined by Martha Savloff, who shares her profound insights about the misunderstood 'M' word - metabolism. Martha discusses the four different stages of metabolic age and how this important metric can help you comprehend your body's caloric burning capabilities in comparison to your actual age.

Martha's personal story, where she reveals her metabolic age being almost twice her actual age, will certainly pique your interest. As we inch closer to the holiday season, she generously shares tips and advice on handling the food-filled period without wreaking havoc on your metabolism. Our co-host, Jeremy Wolfe, provides a lively counterpoint and keeps the conversation engaging. This podcast episode is a treasure trove of information if you aim to understand how aging affects your metabolism and how you can support your body on this journey. So tune in, listen, and let's unravel the mysteries of metabolism together!

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

Welcome to the Inspire Weight Loss Davy podcast. Drug-free, sustainable, life-changing weight loss. Here's your host, martha Savloff.

Jeremy: 0:14

Hello, hello and welcome everyone to another episode of the Inspire Weight Loss Davy podcast. I'm your co-host, jeremy Wolfe, and I'm joined, of course, by your host, martha Savloff. Martha, good to see you again.

Martha: 0:26

Thank you, good to see you.

Jeremy: 0:28

Yeah. So I know I've seen you've been very, very active in the social media sphere and I see you guys are growing nicely. I know you're. I just saw a post that you're looking for help. You got a little help, wanted sign over there, so I wanted to let everybody know that's listening out there. If you're looking for gainful employment, please reach out to Martha Inspire Weight Loss, because they are growing rapidly for sure.

Martha: 0:52

Yep, we are, and I'm very grateful for that, and we're going into the holiday season, yes and so, yeah, what we do in that goes hand in hand.

Jeremy: 1:04

Absolutely, absolutely. So with that in mind, as the holidays approach, obviously everybody is going to be doing some serious, I guess, eating consumption, and probably not the most healthy of things. But I know you had mentioned you wanted to talk a little bit about metabolism and how aging affects that. But before we start, for those that don't know, metabolism, as defined by Wikipedia, is this set of life-sustaining chemical reactions in organisms. So you're going to talk a little bit about how aging affects metabolism, so please share with us.

Martha: 1:46

We call it the M word in I don't know weight loss, because I mean metabolism. The word of metabolism is thrown around so much and when we see clients, they come in and the first thing they say is, like I think my metabolism is so slow. And you know what? There's some truth to that and so many, many people don't know that there's four different stages of the metabolic age. So there's metabolism and there's metabolic age. So let me just kind of define that real quick.

Martha: 2:21

So, before getting into the four stages, because most people don't know that and that is one of the metrics that we drill down to when you come to inspire, as soon as you come in, we look at your metabolic age and then, when you're done with the program, we look at it again and we make sure that you're burning to your natural age. Okay, so I have a story around that that I'll share after the four stages. But so, first and foremost, metabolic age. It's really the calories your body is capable of burning while that rests, and it's also compares to people in your age group as well. So that's metabolic age. So I'm 48 years old. My metabolic age should be at the stage of a 48 year old, right, but what we find is that that's not always the case. When I was 42 years old, my metabolic age was 86 years old.

Jeremy: 3:20

Really.

Martha: 3:21

Really, and I was. You know that's not good right, because I'm supposed to be a 42. Now, before I go further in that story, I wanna share the four stages of the metabolic age. Well, yeah, are you ready to get into it?

Jeremy: 3:39

I'm ready. But may I just say, when you say you're 48? I'm just baffled by it because you look a lot younger. And I'm not just saying I know flattery will get me everywhere, but you, you must be doing something right at this point if you're approaching 50 and you're. You know for those that are just listening here, you know Martha is up doing some great work and has a lot to share with us. So please, let's get into it.

Martha: 4:06

Thank you for that. And I heard something this morning that was so cool. It was an influencer in the health world and he said you know, god provided us everything that we need. And it's so true. And the reason why I you know I look younger, first of all genes, my family, they all look younger than what they are and second of all, food. There's power in food and there's power in, in, in hydrating your body, so that all has to do with that.

Martha: 4:36

Anyways, moving forward, four stages of the metabolic age and some people are gonna say aha, because it's gonna make sense Number one, the youthful metabolic age. That's number one, and that's the ages between zero and 25 years old. Okay, so this is when your metabolism is prime. This is when you're in high school and you're eating Wendy's every day and you don't gain anything Because you're just burning the heck out of that Wendy's. You know you're proud of eating pizza every single day and nothing happens. That's the youthful metabolic age. But also, jeremy, it's also when it's like the most efficiently Burning food into energy and that's why you can eat all that stuff and then you're still like super energized and, you know, staying great.

Martha: 5:32

But the most important part about this phase I want people to hear is that this is a phase that you actually set the future of the of your, your health. So what does that mean? You literally established how healthy your met, your metabolic or your metabolism, is going to be For your future at this stage. So the reason why it's important to know is because most of the time when you have little ones yeah, one year old, two year old, three year old, four year old, five year old people people love to feed those for kids, sugar and tons of like over processed foods and you know all these types of foods that we're trying not to even. We're older, right.

Martha: 6:19

Yeah that's when you're eating the most of it, but that's actually when they shouldn't be, because you're setting how their body's going to function for their future. It's that important. So that's stage number one. So what do you think about that, jeremy? Did you know all that?

Jeremy: 6:40

It makes. It makes a lot of sense, obviously, setting the speaking about any Habits throughout life and setting the stage. It just becomes increasingly more difficult. The older you get, the more set in your ways you are. So obviously, if you grow up eating unhealthy, to make a change from that is going to be very, very difficult and time consuming to Get healthy if it's not already too late, because if you go too long Without taking this into consideration, you know you have serious health problems at that stage.

Martha: 7:07

Sure, and you're setting the, the eating habits right and the food relationship. I want two years old guys like they don't have to be older than that, like when they're tiny. They're, they're sponges Right, they absorb on this. But you're also setting internally in their bodies how their body's going to function and response to food later on Is incredible.

Jeremy: 7:30

You're making me feel guilty for taking my kids to chick filet last night after soccer practice because I I didn't make dinner and I was in a rush and I was like, oh, it's convenient, I'll just go there. It's somewhat healthy, not?

Martha: 7:42

Well, listen, everything in moderation, including moderation, but yeah, that's not the case in our society and that's it's. That's why, you know, diabetes and obesity is huge in our children now, because that's what we feed our kids and you know you go out and to have a time with family, you know, have a great time, and it's always around foods that are normally not what we should be eating, you know so. So that's number one. Number two so it's the maintenance metabolic age, and the maintenance metabolic age is between the ages of 25 to 50. Okay, so now you went from youthful to maintenance. Just the name of the alone tells you that. This is when it's like man when I was in 12th grade, I can do whatever I want and I wouldn't, I wouldn't get any weight anyway.

Martha: 8:40

But now, what the heck? Now it's not like that. I'm not assigned zero like I used to be, you know. So that's because you're transitioning into adulthood and your metabolic rate actually stabilizes. So you know how, in number one it's super efficient and it's burning, you know, food into energy and all this kind of stuff. Now it's like stabilizing. So yeah, it's stabilizing, but in this phase you start feeling like subtle changes and gradual changes in your muscle mass. It's like, you know, I used to pump it up in high school and I used to be swole. And now now I go to the gym and it's like what the heck? Like it's not happening like it used to right, don't remind me, damn it.

Martha: 9:30

And then we also have a tendency of accumulating fat.

Jeremy: 9:35

Yeah.

Martha: 9:36

So this is the maintenance type. So obviously, like a healthy lifestyle, you know, being super active, eating the right foods are it's important right and doing things that increase your metabolism. You know which is, which is food related and activity related, right? Also, the next stage will go to stage number three, and here's an interesting word is that declining stage of your metabolic age.

Jeremy: 10:08

Oh no.

Martha: 10:09

So you went from youthful to maintenance to now declining, and it's like man. Okay, for females it's the periposte metaposal phase and you know, for males age is 50 to seven. That's the age group for the declining metabolic age.

Jeremy: 10:25

So 50 to 50 to 70.

Martha: 10:27

50 to 70. Yes, okay, this is all about hormonal changes continuing the decrease of muscle mass, right. Then those metabolism itself is like naturally slowing down A lot of times in these stages. You know, maybe somebody started with a chronic disease, right, diabetes, maybe some thyroid issues, things like. There's certain chronic diseases that causes the metabolism to slow down. Prescription drugs also does that. So there's certain prescription drugs that causes the metabolism to slow down, and so this phase is definitely not so fun phase, but there is hope because we can do something about all of this and I'm going to talk about that later. Then we go to number four, the last phase, guys, and that's the senior metabolic phase, and that's ages 70 and up. And so in this, way the twilight years.

Martha: 11:36

Yeah, in this phase the metabolism keeps slowing down and then also the muscle mass right Starts declining. Kids continue to decline, and so those are the four stages. Most people have no idea that that exists, and so when you have somebody come into our office and say I feel like my metabolism is slow, well, maybe it's because you're not at the stage that you're supposed to be. And I'm coming back to my story and that's what happened to me when I was 42 years old. I was an 86 year old metabolic age, which I was in the senior stage, and it's like wow, and so again, there's hope, there's things that we can do to help that. So those are the four stages, jeremy. What do you think so far?

Jeremy: 12:34

I just think the human condition is so fascinating. So many people out there take better care of material things they're stuff than they do of their own body and everything you're saying about the muscle mass decline and aging right. It's just so important to exercise, eat right, take care of yourself. Before you know it, you get older and you are in that place where you find it hard to get around, you become immobile and you could have done so much. And with hindsight, obviously you're looking back and you're thinking, wow, I should have taken better care of myself.

Martha: 13:14

Well, and that's the thing that usually people start doing that when something happens, that you have no choice. And now, after hearing this, you understand that we actually should be doing that at the very first stage, because you're setting the stage for the rest of your life or the rest of your child's life. I have a question for you.

Jeremy: 13:39

Sorry to cut you off. I've always said this and I want to know if this is a silly thing to say. It sounds like it probably is. I've always been blessed with I always say this when I'm talking to people I have a fast metabolism because I can pretty much eat whatever I want and I don't balloon up and I don't gain a lot of weight. I mean, to some degree. Is that an accurate thing to just say to somebody that, oh, I must have a fast metabolism? I just say that because it sounds like I do. Is that accurate?

Martha: 14:13

We actually do see that here it has to do also with like your physique type, like the body type that you have. There's different types, body types, right, and we can talk about that in a different episode, but there's several different body types and there's certain ones that are you, like your body type, jeremy, that it can be where their metabolic age is actually more youthful than their natural age, and we see that here too. We have clients that come for only body contouring, that weight loss, and when we run their metabolic age, you know they're like a 15 year old and they're like 30 years old and we're like man, we're jealous, like what the heck. But so, yeah, that can totally happen.

Jeremy: 14:59

So what can I say, Martha? I'm just a prime specimen of human being. What else is there to say? Right, I love that. On that note, we'll end there. Always a pleasure, very informative, very educational. So thank you for sharing. Learned a lot today.

Martha: 15:20

Yeah. So, jeremy, just one last thing. Guys there listening out there, if you want to know what your metabolic age is, come to Inspire. That's the first thing we take a look at, because I was 40. I was 86 and now I'm 48. And then my metabolic age is 48. So there's something that we can do about it.

Jeremy: 15:42

Perfect, all right, sounds good. And thanks everyone for tuning in and we will catch you on the next episode. Everyone, have a wonderful day.

Speaker 1: 15:53

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