| With a high metabolic rate, otters have to eat significant amounts of food regularly. |
| The body decreases metabolic rate, thereby lowering metabolic heat production in the body core. |
| Physiologically, the body's basal metabolic rate slows down with age and is accompanied by a decrease in lean body tissue and an increase in fat. |
| The thyroid releases too much of the hormone thyroxine, which increases the person's basal metabolic rate. |
| Once adulthood is reached, everyone has a fairly steady rate of calorie burn-up, called the metabolic rate. |
| At the other end of the life history, the heritability of old-age metabolic rate is high. |
