7-Up Your Metabolism

When you go on a diet, your metabolism begins to slow down to conserve energy. Your body thinks it could be starving, and your rate of fat loss plummets.

One way to combat that is with 7-keto DHEA. According to the October ’12 Better Nutrition, it’s a nutrient that is naturally present in our bodies but declines with age. It isn’t a stimulant. What it does is improve calorie-burning ability at the most basic level by increasing resting metabolism.

Try 100 milligrams twice daily. That should do the uptick trick.

—Steve Holman