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What Herbs Increase Metabolism?

When staying healthy, it is important to know what helps maintain your body's natural health and metabolism. While there are a number of diet pills and exercises you can use to increase your metabolism and lose weight, there are several herbs that will naturally do this for you. Following are a list of natural herbs that have the ability to increase your metabolism and increase your overall health.

  1. What Is Your Metabolism?

    • Your metabolism is your body's natural process of taking the nutrients you consume and turning them into energy. This in turn allows your body to maintain itself. Energy is what allows you to get through the day. Also, your body helps heal and repair tissues for injuries both internal and external, and eliminates toxins from your body.

    Green, Black and White Tea

    • All three of these teas have natural thermogenic effects on the body, which means they can increase the amount of energy your body uses by two or three percent. When that happens, your metabolism speeds up, allowing you to process food faster, get rid of unwanted fats and toxins faster and increase your weight loss.

      Green tea alone has catechin polyphenols that have the ability to alter your natural norepinephrine levels. Your body uses norepinephrine to increase the rate at which your nervous system burns calories, and that will help boost your metabolism.

    Kelp

    • Kelp is another herb that helps increase your metabolic rate. It contains properties that react with your thyroid glands, so when you eat kelp, your thyroid is affected and your metabolism is boosted. Kelp also contains iodine, which helps increase your body's ability to burn fat and enhance your metabolic rate.

    Guarana

    • Guarana is a berry found in evergreen trees of the Amazon. These berries carry properties that increase your body's fat-burning ability and increase your energy levels naturally. Since guarana is identical to caffeine, it is only natural that your energy levels would increase when taking it. The difference between guarana and coffee is that the caffeine in guarana is released into the body much more slowly than caffeine found in coffee. So your body can maintain a boost in metabolism for a longer, more stable period of time while your nervous system is affected directly. Guarana comes in pill supplements, drinks made with the berry concoction, and is also found in chocolate bars and gum.

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