Why do you have a low basal metabolic rate?
But above all, what the heck is the basal metabolic rate?

BASAL METABOLISM AND BODY MASS

The basal metabolism is that amount of energy that the body burns in conditions of absolute rest, but excluding any kind of activity, even sleeping or sitting.
It is the minimum energy that the body burns in order to stay alive, and it changes according to some parameters: weight, gender, height, age affect the basal metabolic rate.

But there is another important factor to take into account if you have a low metabolism.
That is the body mass.

In fact, there is a correlation between basal metabolic rate and body mass that has been talked about for decades, but whose mechanisms were unknown until now.

Now, a multidisciplinary study by the  Universidad Politécnica de Madrid y and Queen Mary University of London has clarified why the basal metabolic rate depends, in part, on our body mass and the differences between humans, animals, plants and insects.  In fact, if an adult man consumes one calorie per hour to keep himself alive (at a temperature of 20 ° C), an elephant consumes half of it, and a mouse no less than 70! How can this disparity be explained? The researchers explain it with a new model that takes into account both the body’s thermogenic activity (i.e. the energy that is dissipated as heat) and body mass.

So both the body’s thermogenic capacity and its mass affect the basal metabolism.
Put simply: to increase the basal metabolic rate, two things should be done.

HOW TO INCREASE BASAL METABOLISM

1. Increase our thermogenic capacity.
   For example, avoiding dressing excessively in cold weather, eating spicy foods and spices such as cinnamon, eating protein foods at every meal, increasing our Neat, so as to increase the daily energy expenditure spontaneously.
   Find out here what Neat is .
2. Improve our body composition and our mitochondrial capacity with moderate physical activity , which is around two to three hours of weekly activity, combined with long walks.And at the same time reduce oxidative stress , for example with an anti-inflammatory diet and with the reduction of all sources of excessive stress.

   An anti-inflammatory diet is a diet rich in seasonal fruit and vegetables, varied, balanced, with three weekly portions of oily fish or fish, legumes and adequate hydration.
   Here I give you a practical example.