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What is Metabolic Testing?

The average adult eats close to one million calories a year.  Despite this huge number, most healthy people are able to maintain a relatively constant body weight over years and decades without much conscious effort.  When "calories in" is less than "calories out," a state of energy balance is achieved and body weight remains constant.

Energy balance is driven by a common law of physics: Energy cannot be created or destroyed.  Energy must be either used or stored.  When "calories in" is less than "calories out," a state of negative energy balance occurs and the body weight decreases.  In contrast, when "calories in" is greater than "calories out," a state of positive energy balance occurs and body weight increases. Overweight is the end result of a mismatch between "calories in" and "calories out".

The Metabolic testing system is an evidence-based lifestyle management and cardiovascular risk reduction program.  "Evidence based" means my recommendations are based on the results of clinical trials, published research, and guidelines of major expert groups.  This is critical for successful weightloss.  Most testing measures are based on estimates.  If estimates are off by even the smallest percentage of number of calories weight gain is the end result.

The Energy Balance Equation

"Calories In"

Food provides calories (energy) for the body in the form of carbohydrates, protein, alcohol and fat.  Any calories from food that are not used immediately for energy production are stored.  Each source of calories is unique in the way it is used and stored by the body.

Carbohydrates is usually the main source of energy for the body.  Carbohydrates contain four(4) calories per gram.  Carbohydrates is stored in the body as glycogen.  The body can only store limited amounts of carbohydrates as glycogen.

Protein is used by the body to build and maintain body tissue and to regulate body processes.  Protein also contains four(4) calories per gram, but protein is rarely used by the body for energy.  Like carbohydrates, the body can only store limited amounts of protein.

Fat is the most calorie dense of the nutrients.  It contains nine(9) calories per gram.  Body fat is the preferred way to store energy.  Unlike carbohydrates and protein, the body is very efficient at storing the fat you eat as body fat.  The body has almost unlimited capacity to store fat.

What's the bottom line? Simple math. You have to burn more calories than you consume.  The New leaf metabolic testing system provides accurate caloric numbers based on the air you breath during the test.  From those numbers, I can provide complete weight loss numbers and a cardiovascular program designed around your metabolic fingerprint.