In this episode, I define what it is then dig deep into habits that prevent and accelerate fax oxidation.
Most weight loss plans fail long term, because they focus entirely too much on calories or macros, but do not give you the tools to improve your health
Fat oxidation falls in that category.
People with healthy metabolism sutain fat oxidation.
Talking about health, I want to talk about a study that came across recently.
It is posted on PubMed titled “Outcome Reporting Bias in COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Clinical Trials.”
It states “ Relative risk reduction and absolute risk reduction measures in the evaluation of clinical trial data are poorly understood by health professionals and the public.”
According to another PubMed article, relative risk reduction tells you by how much the treatment reduced the risk of bad outcomes relative to the control group who did not have the treatment.
Absolute risk reduction (ARR) – also called risk difference (RD) – is the most useful way of presenting research results to help your decision-making
The first article mentioned claims that the #s regarding the effectiveness of the covid vaccines are poorly overstated.
What is fax oxidation?
It is the breakdown of triglycerides stored in fat cells, and free fatty acids in the blood for energy. During any activity there will be some usage of fats as energy.
Just by knowing that do you see why it is important for weight loss?
If you are trying to lose weight, you more than likely have excess body fat.
So, then the question you have to ask yourself is how can I make my body break down stored fat to use as energy?
This is why again, just focusing on calories is a waste of time
Some trainers say if you eat less calories, you will burn more fat.
Well, that is absolutely wrong!
Let’s count the ways:
- Your BMI adjusts. Your body will adjust to the amount of calories you feed it and learn to use them to maintain your body weight.
- Your body goes into a survival mood. If you constantly stay underfed, your body will attempt to store as much body fat as possible for future use.
- Raises your cortisol levels, leading to high blood pressure, jitters and a host of other health problems.
- Your body will only divert most nutrients to your large arteries, not leaving enough for your smaller processes.
- if you are insulin insensitive aka type 2 diabetic, your body will still store fat , especially if you are taking insulin
These are just some things that can happen.
So yeah, let’s stop talking about calories, but we can find healthy ways to promote fat oxidation.
What are these ways I wonder?
Here is another list:
- Fasting. Now, don’t just stop eating and if you are new to fasting, you may want to implement it under the guide of a certified or licensed professional. Where most people go wrong with fasting is they just stop eating. Well if you do so, your body will not burn extra fat. So it is important to couple fasting with the next hit
- Movement. Constant movement tells your body to use blood glucose, stored glycogen and then burn body fat. Exercising in a fasted state promotes fat loss. Don’t stop there, you have to keep moving. A minimum of 10k steps per day. Even better, 12k if you are trying to lose fat.
- Hunger. This is a great que. If you are not hungry, then you are not efficient at burning fat. That is how fasting and movement can help. Again, you may want to work with an expert who can teach you proper fasting habits, what and when to eat and so on. I will eventually have a fasting expert on the show.
- Eating too much in each meal. There is tons of research that shows that frequent small meals can be more effective than a few large meals. In the beginning though, you may want to eat few small meals and as your metabolism speeds up, you can eat more often.
- Lastly, strength training. Stop trying to out run your plate. Strength training and developing lean muscle is vital to generate heat, burn more calories and body fat.
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