In the initial search, 3612 relevant articles were identified. 208 records after duplicates were removed. After the titles, abstracts, and texts were evaluated, 1151 articles were excluded (Fig. 1). In total, 107 full-text articles were assessed for eligibility. From them, 25 articles were excluded for the following reasons: twelve articles were excluded because they did not distinguish obesity from overweight; thirteen articles were excluded because they did not provide aging process and lifespan. Therefore, the final sample comprised of 82 articles.
Body mass, Food intake, Metabolic rate
Basal metabolic rate (BMR) represents 75–80% of a total daily energy expenditure, and only 20–25% of a total energy expenditure is used for external work as physical and mental activity. (3, 4, 16) Therefore, BMR can imply MR as an indicator of the amount of energy expenditure per unit time.
BMR of people with the same weight may differ by up to 25%. (17) For instance, in tropical populations, BMR is 15–20% lower compared to Europeans and Americans. (18) Overweight can change BMR on 20–50%. (19)
The largest part of BMR spends on food intake and digestion. On average, a 100-kcal surplus in daily energy expenditure and positive one percent shift in 24-hour respiratory quotient were associated with independent increases in ad libitum food intake of approximately 175 and 204 kcal/day, respectively, indicating that both the underlying metabolism and substrate oxidation are competing drives for food intake. (20) For each 100 kcal/day extra intake, the body expends ≈ 50 kcal/day from own reserve.
Daily extra food intake increases metabolic stress to the body. Excess food intake increases both BMR and active metabolism. (21) Over-metabolism consumes body “vital energy”.
The body expends more energy on excess protein digestion, for instance, protein increases thermogenic effect up to 25% of total energy expenditure. (22) A protein diet speeds up MR. Protein metabolism loads all detoxification organs as kidneys, liver, skin, and lungs. A simple restriction of food intake decreases in MR by 45%. (23)
The body on Earth needs to have muscle mass to overcome gravitation. Body fat also consumes the body energy. When the body doesn’t need in muscle mass, it will hypotrophy as it takes place in open cosmos, (24) but the trend does not happen with fat mass. Fat mass does not atrophy in the body and it can live for many years.
Overweight, Metabolic rate, Gravitation, Time-flow perception
According to both classical Newton's physics and quantum physics (Relativity theory), the body speed and time are inversely correlated. (25) Slowing time creates a delayed TFP. MR increases accordingly with increase of body speed. Consequently, with increase in MR the TFP slows down.
Gravitation also delays time flow (gravitational time dilation) (26) and directly proportional influences body MR. (27) The stronger gravitation, the slower the TFP. MR is reduced by 19% at ‘zero gravitation’. (28) Gravitation influences on time-flow both directly and through effects on body MR. Gravitation boosts MR and slows TFP. (11)
TFP is accelerated with human aging (29) also due to slowing MR down.
Human activity depends on metabolism, (30) therefore MR influences on TFP.
Overweight accelerates MR. (31) Overweight people more often complain of fatigue and discomfort. Delayed TFP also occurs in people with overweight when they feel tired. The fatigue feeling may be associated with a decline of endurance threshold. (32) According to the Thermodynamic Second Law every desired result takes effort.
A delayed TFP is observed in people waiting some event, or engaged in unloved affair. (12) Obviously, ‘waiting process’ speeds MR up.
Delayed TFP is also observed in childhood (they have a fast MR), and accelerated TFP in old people (they have a slow MR). Increased MR delays TFP.
Table 1 shows the summary result of studies assessing the impact of MR on TFP.
Table 1
Summary of studies assessing the impact of metabolic rate on time-flow perception
Authors
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Protocol
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Metabolic rate parameters
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Time-flow perception
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Ulmer HV et al., 1996(72)
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Human study
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MR at heavy exercise
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Delay
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Misanin JR et al., 1998(73)
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Animal study
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MR at low temperatures
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Slow the internal clock
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Block RA et al., 1999(74)
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Human studies (Review, 20 experiments)
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MR in children
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Delay
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Harms JK et al., 2003(35)
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Human study
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Increasing MR
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Delay
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Hancock P et al., 2010(33)
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Human study (n = 320)
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MR in young age
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Delay
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Healy K et al., 2013(30)
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Human and Animal studies
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Body mass increasing
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Delay
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MR, metabolic rate. |
The younger human, the greater tendency to overestimate the time-flow. The older human, the greater tendency to underestimate the time-flow. (33)
After body growth stops (23–25 years), MR becomes moderate, TFP begins to accelerate. It is related to an energy-saving mode. The mode increases lifespan. (34) Barbi et al. showed that mortality is constant at extreme ages. Human death rates increase exponentially up to age 80, then decelerate, and plateau after age 105. There's no limit to longevity, says the study that revives human lifespan debate.
While goes MR down a nutrient intake should be decreased accordingly. Nowadays, modern eating habit increases overweight prevalence.
Animal world also confirms the relationship between MR and TFP. The slower metabolism (cold-blooded animals) the more TFP accelerates. (30) In turtles (slow metabolism), time seems like “go fast”, but in hummingbirds (fast metabolism), time seems like “go slowly”. (35) The faster MR, the slower events change around. Every increase in MR slows TFP down.
MR in men and women is different, TFP is also different between them. (36) Possibly, lifespan in women is longer than in men as the result.
Body growth factors decrease in lifespan. (37) Attempts to accelerate metabolism lead to aging and diseases. Excess metabolism reduces body reserve. The faster body growth, the shorter lifespan. (38) The Hayflick limit evidences body energy is finite: the more cell mitosis, the shorter cell lifespan. (39)
Nutrient intake should be optimized for energy eco-mode.
Overweight, Metabolic rate, Energy expenditure, Lifespan
Weight, MR and body reserve are correlated to each other. The more weight, the more body maintains a higher MR. Increase in bodyweight and metabolic activity are accompanied by rapid body growth, but short lifespan. (40)
Table 2 presents summary of studies influence of a high MR on aging, survival and lifespan in humans and animals.
Table 2
Summary of studies assessing the impact of a high metabolic rate on aging, survival and lifespan.
Authors
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Protocol
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Participants
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Measurements of high MR
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Aging/ Survival/Lifespan
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Negasheva M et al., 2014(75)
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Human study
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119 (aged 60 to 104-years-old females)
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Biological age
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Aging accelerated
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Keil G et al, 2015(76)
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Human and Animal studies
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Body temperature
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Aging accelerated and Lower lifespan
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Ravussin E et al., 2015(77)
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Human study
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218 (females and males)
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Resting metabolic rate
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Aging accelerated
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Geisler C et al., 2016(78)
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Human study
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448 (females and males)
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Energy expenditure
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Aging accelerated
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Munro D et al., 2019(79)
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Animal study
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-
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Mitochondrial metabolism
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Aging accelerated
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Zampino M et al., 2020(80)
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Human study
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619 men and women aged 24–97 years
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Mitochondrial function and Resting metabolic rate
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Aging accelerated
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Boyce A et al, 2020(8)
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Animal study
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46 species, and from literature data across 147 species
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Resting metabolic rate
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Lower survival
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Protsiv M et al, 2020(81)
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Human study
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677423 human body temperature measurements
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Body temperature from 1860 to 2017
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Lower lifespan
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Kelemen E et al, 2019(82)
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Animal study
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Bumble bees
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Resting metabolic rate
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Lower lifespan
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Most J et al., 2020(15)
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Human studies
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> 10500
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Total daily energy expenditure
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Aging accelerated
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Increase in metabolic rate (MR) considered if: mitochondrial oxidative; Biological age (systolic and diastolic blood pressure, forced lung capacity, expiratory breath-holding, crystalline accommodation, acuity of hearing or auditory threshold under 4,000 Hz, body mass, self-evaluation of health status; weight gain).
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Overweight is the cause of higher energy expenditure. (41) Greater mass demands higher BMR. Overweight burns more calories. Decreasing fat mass reduces BMR, increases lifespan. (3, 42) One kilogram overweight deprives ≈ 50 kcal/day of daily energy expenditure. (43) Overweight shortens lifespan, and weight loss increases it. (44)
Overfat gain is unfavorable process for body energy. Overweight increases the total pool metabolites. (42, 45) Overweight reduces tolerance to physical/mental stress. (9)
For each 100-kcal/day increase in energy expenditure, the mortality risk increases by 1.3. Higher MR for 24-hour energy expenditure predicts early mortality and aging. (46) Overweight and increased MR cause faster body aging.
Energy expenditure depends on bodyweight. The heavier the body, the more energy he expends for living. (19, 47) Obesity significantly increases energy expenditure.
The highest amount of metabolism is expended to ensure nutritional (digestive) and reproductive metabolism. (48) Hyperactive sex reduces the total body energy that shortens lifespan. (49) Sex hormones play energetic role. (50) Sexual intercourse decreases sex hormones. The body makes an extra effort to restore the sex hormones reserve. (51)
Overweight, Metabolic rate, Diseases, Time-flow perception
Every disease increases in MR. (52) Patients with overweight expends more energy than healthy overweight people. (53)
Every sick person has a delayed TFP. (54) Sick has more complaints related to impatience to achieve outcomes and rush events. Delayed TFP is associated with increase in MR in patients. (30, 55) Increased blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory rate, local/overall temperature, sweating, synthesis of enzymes/hormones, immunological system activation, secretions (sputum, sweat, urine, feces, etc.) indicate on increased MR.
Every sick person has a higher MR and expends more own vital energy than healthy. (56) Every tired person has delayed TFP as a sick. Both are too impatient to achieve results, rush events.
Overweight correlates with onset/development diseases such as diabetes mellitus, hypertension, allergic and inflammatory diseases, urolithiasis and cholelithiasis, liver fibrosis, and tumor. (1, 57)
Individual bodyweight, Potential body energy, Lifespan
To accumulate fat mass ability is one of the basis to survive at food deficiency. Food deficiency accompanied the humankind continuously. Currently, the survival ability leads to obesity-epidemic. (1, 19)
Every person has own individual bodyweight. Normal bodyweight is when the body does not suffer from any diseases. The more potential the body has, the more weight he can gain. Weightgain is limited due to body potential. Weight limit is when weight cannot increase, and when weight stables at the highest point of weightgain that is ‘terminal bodyweight’. Bodyweight is an integral indicator of body energy.
Disease is an energy crisis signal. Each disease is accompanied by weight loss. (13, 55) Weight loss helps to recover. Simple restriction of food intake decreases MR by 45%. (23) Decreasing MR is the saving body ability at food shortage.
Weightloss creates ‘the power to weight gain’. ‘The weightgain power’ allows to recover from diseases, increases physical/mental activity. Weightloss recovers from a lot of chronic diseases such as hypertension, gastric ulcer, psoriasis, diabetes, bronchial asthma, neoplasms, urolithiasis, gallstone disease, and etc. (13, 58–61)
Overeating at overweight deteriorates digestive; leads to malnutrition, metabolic intoxication, and immune stress. (62) Alimentary energy is energy expenditure for food intake, digestive, absorption, transport, storage, and eliminating.
Bodyweight tends to increase with age and it is only associated with fat gain. (10) The amount/stage of chronic diseases increase with age as well. (63) Various diseases is associated with individual chrono-biorhythms. (2) Overweight is a consensus between body potential and nutrient reserve.
Aging, Metabolic rate, Weight loss
Effect of calorie restriction on aging and age-related diseases is well described. (9, 64) Overweight is a central role of many age-related chronic diseases and aging. (65)
Why weightloss is not easy in practice? The lower food intake, the greater percentage of nutrient absorption, and vice versa. Therefore, every diet should use a very low-calorie, or ‘zero calories’ diet. (59–61) Under-utilized method of weight loss achieved with very-low-calorie diet allows activating endogenous lipolysis.
MR decreases with age. (66) Body under the Earth gravitation takes place in the energy-saving mode to prolong lifespan. Energy expenditure becomes careful with age and makes lifespan as unlimited (34, 67)
Decreasing MR with age is not aging sign, it is energy expenditure adaptation mode. Weight loss optimizes MR, creates ‘weightgain power’. The greatest reduction of total energy expenditure (including BMR, active expenditure, food thermic effect) after weight loss clearly shows how the body spent own energy to maintain overweight. (68)
Overweight is useless cycle of adenosine triphosphate consumption. (69) However, not every weightloss gives positive for the body. Some weightloss methods are not profitable to recover from diseases. Weightloss under chronic/neoplastic diseases leads to energy expenditure, whereas weightloss on restriction diet leads to energy saving. The growth of lifespan in most countries is more associated with improvement of household living conditions, saving heating energy; improving hygiene/sanitary conditions, decreasing infectious diseases; greater safety for living; fewer threats from wild animals, military actions. (1, 3)
We should use weightloss methods getting energy from fat burning. Fat is a source of energy, but fat is getting older/denser if don’t use it. Old fat absorbs intermediate/final metabolic products, which induces metabolic intoxication during weightloss. During weightloss should manage the intoxication. Endogenous lipolysis provides the body with nutrients, vitamins, trace elements. (59, 60) Endogenous lipolysis starts only after ending of carbohydrate store, after 4–5 days of restriction diet. (70) Having a single meal per workday (usually after workhours) could be one of the modes to prevent weight regain. (60, 71)