A 50-year-old member asked:

Could overeating reduce metabolism long term?

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Dr. Humberto Quintana
Psychiatry 46 years experience
YES: our body is used to consuming a certain amount of food at certain times during the day. Binge eating over a long period of time will retrain your body to get used to a certain routine and ur metabolism will eventually slow down.
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