Green tea is the healthiest beverage on the planet, It is loaded with antioxidant and various substances that are beneficial for health, Many studies have shown that green tea can increase fat burning and help you lose weight, Let me explain how that works…
Green Tea Contains Substances That Can Help You Lose Fat
Green tea is more than just hot, flavoured water, The bioactive substances in the tea leaves dissolve in the water and make it into the final drink, When you drink a cup of quality tea, you’re actually getting a large number of beneficial substances with potent biological effects.
The best known of these is caffeine. A cup of green tea contains much less caffeine (24-40 mg) than a cup of coffee (100-200 mg), but still enough to have a mild effect.
Keep in mind that these benefits can be derived both from drinking green tea as a beverage, as well as taking green tea extract as a supplement. Most of the studies used extracts.
Green Tea Can Help Mobilize Fat From Fat Cells
In order to burn fat, it must first be broken down in the fat cell and moved into the bloodstream. The active compounds in green tea can aid in this process by boosting the effects of some fat burning hormones. The main antioxidant in tea, EGCG, can help inhibit an enzyme that breaks down the hormone norepinephrine, When this enzyme is inhibited, the amount of norepinephrine increases.
This hormone is used by the nervous system as a signal to the fat cells, telling them to break down fat. Therefore, more norepinephrine leads to a stronger signal being sent to the fat cell and more fat gets broken down. Green Tea Increases Fat Burning, Especially During Exercise, If you look at the label of almost every commercial weight loss and fat burning supplement, chances are that you will find some kind of tea there as an ingredient.
This is because green tea has been repeatedly shown to increase the burning of fat, especially during exercise. In one study, men who took green tea extract and exercised burned 17% more fat than men who didn’t get the supplement. This study suggests that green tea can boost the fat burning effects of exercise.
Another study that went on for 8 weeks showed that green tea increased fat burning, both during exercise and during rest. There are several studies that agree with this. Green tea selectively boosts the burning of fat, which may lead to reduced body fat in the long term.
Can Green Tea Make You Automatically Take In Fewer Calories?
One way that green tea could help with weight loss, is by reducing appetite. This would make us take in fewer calories, automatically, without any effort. Several studies have looked at the effects of green tea on appetite, but most showed conflicting results. There are also animal studies suggesting that green tea can reduce the amount of fat we absorb from foods, but this has not been confirmed in humans.
Overall, it seems that green tea exerts its effects primarily by increasing “calories out”… it makes us burn more fat, but it doesn’t appear to have any noticeable effect on how much food we end up eating throughout the day.
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