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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! โฃ

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As normal functioning humans, most of us desire some sort of altered consciousness. Itโ€™s 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. โฃ

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Alcohol impacts fat loss through both direct and indirect mechanisms.โฃ

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๐——๐—ถ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜๐—น๐˜†, ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ต๐—ผ๐—น ๐˜€๐˜‚๐—ฝ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐Ÿณ ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ด๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—บ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ผ๐˜๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—ณ๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐˜€๐˜†๐—ป๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐˜€๐˜๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ฒ ๐˜„๐—ถ๐˜๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ป ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ. โฃ

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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.โฃ

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๐—œ๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜๐—น๐˜†, ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ต๐—ผ๐—น ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐—ฝ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐˜๐—ถ๐˜๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ฑ ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ผ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐˜€. โฃ

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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. โฃ

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It also shuts down our prefrontal cortex, which is in charge of executive functioning, and therefore increases our ๐˜ช๐˜ฎ๐˜ฑ๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ด. โฃ

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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. โฃ

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When you lift the brakes up by drinking a substance that puts our ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ป๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฅ 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 donโ€™t 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 โ€œ๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ท๐˜ฆโ€ and engage in the hedonism they know wrecks their goals. โฃ

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๐—ช๐—ถ๐˜๐—ต ๐—ธ๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜„๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐—ด๐—ฒ ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—ด๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐˜„๐—ฒ๐—ฟ.



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