Zero.

That is how much your metabolism slows between forty and sixty, once you account for size.

I keep seeing some guy online tell men their metabolism falls off a cliff at forty. Ten percent a decade, he says, and that is why you are soft and foggy and slow.

Sounds about right. It is also invented.

Let's do the math on the real number. The biggest study we have came out in Science in 2021, more than six thousand people across twenty-nine countries, ages eight days to ninety-five.

Pound for pound, the engine holds flat from twenty all the way to sixty. It only drifts down after that, and even then by less than one percent a year.

Right now, you can buy a dollar's worth of gold for about 36 cents.

That sounds impossible. Here's how it's real.

The major gold miners are throwing off record cash flow — even after gold's recent pullback. The four largest have never had this much free cash on hand. Ever. At today's gold price, they're running margins as high as 75% — the most profitable they have ever been.

Which hands them a problem.

Go here to see the problem — and why the majors are about to go on a shopping spree for the ages.

When a major gold miner makes record profits, it does one of two things: hand the cash back to shareholders, or buy the best junior mining assets to secure future production.

And here's the piece the market is missing:

The best junior assets are still priced as if gold were stuck at $1,800 an ounce — not north of $4,000, where it trades today.

So the majors are staring at their own future production shrinking, sitting on record cash, looking at top-tier junior assets trading at a fraction of what that gold is worth at today's price.

They don't have a choice. They buy — or their output keeps shrinking until they're out of business.

That's how you buy a dollar of gold for 36 cents: you own the junior before the major is forced to pay up for it.

The gap between what these assets are worth and what they trade for has a name. I call it the Golden Anomaly. It only appears early in a gold bull market, and it closes fast — usually the moment the majors start writing cheques.

So you can pay full price after the gap closes…

Or buy the dollar for 36 cents while the Anomaly still exists.

My name is Garrett Goggin, CFA, CMT, and it's why Porter Stansberry recently called me:

"THE most knowledgeable gold investor in the world."

Go here to see my Golden Anomaly portfolio — and the three names next on the majors' shopping list.

So the cliff at forty is a story. Which leaves a better question sitting there.

If the engine never slowed, why do you feel like it did?

Here is what actually changed, and it is not the speed of the furnace. It is the furnace itself.

Two things wear down while the rate holds steady. You carry less muscle, and the little power plants inside your cells start running dirty.

Mitochondria

The power plants inside every cell that turn what you eat into ATP, the actual fuel your brain and body spend.

As the decades pass, research shows those plants make energy less efficiently. Same food going in, less clean power coming out.

The other half is muscle. You lose three to eight percent of it per decade after thirty, and muscle is where most of those power plants live.

Fewer plants, and the ones left running dirty. That is the whole reason fifty-two feels slower than thirty-two.

Now the part that hits your work. Your brain is two percent of your weight and burns about twenty percent of your energy.

So when the power supply gets sloppy, the organ you earn with is first in line to feel the brownout.

Not a slow metabolism. A power problem.

There is a link in that chain almost nobody names. Those plants run on a molecule called CoQ10, and your body makes less of it every decade.

And if you are one of the millions of men your age on a statin, it trims that molecule further. The same pathway that makes cholesterol makes CoQ10, so the drug guarding your heart quietly shorts your cells.

None of this means a pill fixes it. The plate and the barbell come first.

Protein to hold the muscle, and something heavy to tell your body to keep it. That is the free half, and it is the bigger half.

But the machinery itself, the CoQ10 your cells burn to turn fuel into power, is exactly where a quality supplement earns its place. Food starts the job, and it does not always top off a tank that has drained for twenty years.

If you are on a statin and dragging through your afternoons, that is a real conversation with your doctor, not a thing to guess at.

Pick up something heavy today and carry it a while. A loaded bag across the yard, or ten hard reps of anything with weight on it.

You did not slow down. You quit maintaining the one engine every dollar you earn runs through.

That engine does not care what year you were born. It cares whether you fed it and worked it this week.

The man who does both at fifty-two is the sharp one still in the room at sixty-two.