metabolically
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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People who have prediabetes, Type 2 diabetes or severe obesity, for example, tend to have lower GLP-1 than those who are metabolically healthy.
From MarketWatch • May 18, 2026
"The fitter you are, the more metabolically efficient your body becomes," Professor La Gerche explains.
From Science Daily • Nov. 1, 2025
The houses are still modest, certainly by comparison to the metabolically overwrought mansions of Beverly Hills and West L.A., but now the prices, like the views, are spectacular.
From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2024
Having a strong sense of smell can be metabolically costly, Bird notes, so it’s possible that domestication and reliance on humans for food slackened the evolutionary pressure to maintain such a sharp olfactory edge.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 26, 2024
“Their brains were less metabolically active,” as Dr. Strayer explains it in slightly more scientific terms.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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