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    "The Optimist Daily: Making Solutions the News"
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  "textContent": "BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM The idea that your body works against you when you exercise has circulated in fitness and science communities for years. Work out more, the theory goes, and your metabolism quietly dials back somewhere else (suppressing immune function, trimming reproductive hormones, slowing the thyroid) to keep your total daily calorie […]\n\nThe post More movement, more energy burned: new study challenges metabolism myth first appeared on The Optimist Daily: Making Solutions the News.",
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