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Did You know that Alcohol STOPS the body BURNING FAT!l?? Your body processes Alcohol first, before fat, protein or carbs. 🥃 Thus drinking alcohol slows down the burning fat 🥃 Your liver is too busy metabolising alcohol to do it's normal job of getting rid of fat - Once alcohol is consumed about 10-20% is absorbed directly into the bloodstream via the stomach and reaches your heart, brain, muscles and other tissues in under a minute. - The other 80-90% is transported to the liver where it is broken down to acetaldehyde by the enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase. - Acetaldehyde is a close relative of formaldehyde (used to embalm or preserve human remains) and is toxic and highly reactive, more so than alcohol itself. - It’s this excess of acetaldehyde that is the main cause of liver damage. - To further break down and remove acetaldehyde, the body releases the enzyme acetaldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH), which is rate limiting, and glutathione (which acts like sticky fly paper attracting toxins) converting it to lesser toxic by-products – acetate and NADH. - Acetate can then be used to form fatty acids (hooray, just what we want, more fat!) and carbon dioxide and water. #alcohol #weight #life #damage #shape #health #issues #you #education #impact
