{"id":1459,"date":"2025-10-20T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.masspectrum.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/20\/even-for-elite-athletes-the-bodys-metabolism-has-its-limits\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T15:00:00","slug":"even-for-elite-athletes-the-bodys-metabolism-has-its-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.masspectrum.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/20\/even-for-elite-athletes-the-bodys-metabolism-has-its-limits\/","title":{"rendered":"Even for elite athletes, the body\u2019s metabolism has its limits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While ultramarathoners are capable of huge energy spurts, overall the athletes top out at 2.5 times the metabolic rate needed for basic body functions.\u200bWhile ultramarathoners are capable of huge energy spurts, overall the athletes top out at 2.5 times the metabolic rate needed for basic body functions.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/elite-athletes-metabolism-limits\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While ultramarathoners are capable of huge energy spurts, overall the athletes top out at 2.5 times the metabolic rate needed for basic body functions.\u200bWhile ultramarathoners are capable of huge energy spurts, overall the athletes top out at 2.5 times the metabolic rate needed for basic body functions.\u00a0Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-medicine"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.masspectrum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.masspectrum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.masspectrum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.masspectrum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.masspectrum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.masspectrum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.masspectrum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.masspectrum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.masspectrum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.masspectrum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}