This was a statement that a client brought to us earlier this week, saying a medical professional had told them that smoking speeds up your metabolism and therefore if you stop it will slow down thus making you gain weight.
We were, obviously, extremely keen to find out if this was in fact true.
Here are the research articles we refer to in this weeks Why?
1) https://www.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1152/jappl.1992.72.2.401#.Wu5UmlftMm0.email
2)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jbmr.5650040513#.Wu5Va-Vjrm4.email
3)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/002604959190225L
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