What To Know About Drinking & Fat Loss
Updated: Apr 1, 2020

Our friend Nick Andrus wanted us to talk about alcohol and fat loss, so here we go! โฃ
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As normal functioning humans, most of us desire some sort of altered consciousness. Itโs intrinsic and persisted for most of evolution. As talked about yesterday โ alcohol seems to be the only acceptable way to get high without being socially ostracized, so of course this is a topic everyone has questions about. โฃ
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Alcohol impacts fat loss through both direct and indirect mechanisms.โฃ
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๐๐ถ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐น๐, ๐ฎ๐น๐ฐ๐ผ๐ต๐ผ๐น ๐๐๐ฝ๐ฝ๐น๐ถ๐ฒ๐ ๐ณ ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐น๐ผ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฒ๐ ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ด๐ฟ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ผ๐บ๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ ๐๐๐ป๐๐ต๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ ๐๐ถ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐น๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ. โฃ
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Basically, the body focuses on detoxing the alcohol rather than using other nutrients as an energy source, so you have a greater partitioning of calories to fat stores and a greater rate of fat synthesis.โฃ
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๐๐ป๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐น๐, ๐ฎ๐น๐ฐ๐ผ๐ต๐ผ๐น ๐บ๐ผ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ณ๐ถ๐ฒ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ผ๐ฑ ๐ฐ๐ต๐ผ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐. โฃ
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It acts directly on fat cells to reduce the secretion of leptin, which in turn stimulates appetite and motivates us to eat more food. โฃ
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It also shuts down our prefrontal cortex, which is in charge of executive functioning, and therefore increases our ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ญ๐ด๐ช๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด. โฃ
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For all the nutrition and fit pros that are more stringent with their diets, that usually translates into more junk food consumption when imbibing. โฃ
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When you lift the brakes up by drinking a substance that puts our ๐ญ๐ช๐ป๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ brain in control, you bet your ass things are going to go sideways quicklike. Survival is your primary focus when the prefrontal cortex is shut down. Most donโt actually desire what excessive hedonism provides, yet they do it anyways when they drink. What does that tell you? Individuals often utilize EtOH as a license to โ๐ฎ๐ช๐ด๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆโ and engage in the hedonism they know wrecks their goals. โฃ
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๐ช๐ถ๐๐ต ๐ธ๐ป๐ผ๐๐น๐ฒ๐ฑ๐ด๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ๐ฒ๐ ๐ด๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ ๐ฝ๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ.
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