Is water a fat burner? Endocrinologist responds

Endocrinologist, chief doctor of the Minsk City Clinical Endocrinology Center Elena Yurenya in the talk show “PRO HEALTH” on the YouTube channel “SEE AND LIVE” told about the role of water in the management of metabolic processes, writes sb.by.

From a scientific point of view, water is not a fat burner because it does not contain substances that would break down fat. But at the cellular level, the breakdown of fat without water is impossible. For example, there is such a chemical process as hydrolysis (the breakdown of fats with water). It can't happen without water.

Metabolism is about understanding what water is. Water is not tea or coffee, but ordinary drinking water. And it really speeds up our metabolism. There is a life hack: when you want to eat, drink water. Better yet, cool water. Why? Because cool water also accelerates metabolism simply because it needs to be heated to body temperature. It is believed that if you drink half a liter of water, then after 30 minutes your metabolism will accelerate by 40%.

Insufficient water consumption can contribute to the appearance of edema. In principle, one and a half to two liters of water we can drink, but not at once, but during the day. In general, the norm for a person is about 30 milliliters per kilogram of weight, if there are no cardiovascular diseases and chronic heart failure. There is a hormone aldosterone, which regulates fluid retention in the body and the excretion of water by the kidneys. And if there is not enough water, then the body stores this water for the future. And if it is enough, then aldosterone removes water from the body, and the swelling goes away. This is also a kind of unusual phenomenon. But it is important to drink drinking water, and then really swelling can be removed.

Watch the project “PRO HEALTH” on the YouTube channel “Watch and Live” every Sunday at 12:00. Specialists in various fields will answer popular questions of concern to everyone in simple language and with humor. Endocrinologist explained why after eating pulls on sweets

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