In his previous article, Ping Ge mentioned that there are many factors that affect weight loss, such as diet, exercise, sleep, drinking water, stress, and circle of friends.
Interested friends will ask, diet and exercise will affect weight loss. It is understandable that drinking more water is good for weight loss. Why does stress affect weight loss?
Today we will talk about why stress affects the weight loss effect. This matter is actually related to the hormones in the human body.
First of all, we have to make it clear that human fat catabolism is actually affected by the hormone levels in the receptor. Which hormones are specifically affected by it?
has 5 kinds of hormones, which have an effect on fat receptors.
Wait, how come a receptor popped up again, it's too professional to understand.
Don’t worry, listen to my explanation. The definition of receptor in Baidu Encyclopedia is: refers to any biological macromolecule that can combine with hormones, neurotransmitter , drugs or intracellular signaling molecules and can cause changes in cell function.
Is it very awkward? You can simply understand the fat receptor as a special thing that, together with the hormones in the human body, plays an important role in the decomposition and oxidation of fat cells , In other words, can make you lose weight more effectively, or no effect.
There are two receptors in human fat cells: α receptor and β receptor, α receptor inhibits fat consumption, β receptor promotes fat consumption, and when the activity of α receptor increases, it is unfavorable for lipolysis; conversely In other words, when β receptor activity increases, fat storage is unfavorable.
To be more straightforward, if your alpha receptors become stronger, it will be difficult for you to lose weight successfully, and if your beta receptors become more active, you will not be easy to store fat, and naturally you will not get fat. , It’s easier to lose weight.
Let’s briefly explain the impact of these 5 hormones on fat consumption:
1. Insulin
Many people are familiar with insulin.However, it may be more because of diabetes and learned that there is insulin. From the perspective of fat consumption, when the insulin level is relatively high, it will increase the activity of α receptors, while the activity of β receptors will decrease. As a result, fat is easier to store, especially in the abdomen.
2. Estrogen
Estrogen can increase the sensitivity and quantity of alpha receptors. This is why it is more difficult for women to lose weight than men. Women can comfort themselves: it’s not that I don’t work hard, but that it’s physiological reasons. It’s harder for me to lose weight.
3. Thyroxine
Thyroxine can increase β receptor activity and block α receptor response.
So people with thyroid disease may have two extreme conditions, either very fat or very thin.
4. Cortisol
This hormone is the topic we are discussing today: the root cause of the stress conference that affects the weight loss effect, because the increase in stress will lead to the increase of the cortisol level in the body, and the occasional increase in the cortisol level is not a big problem , But if you are under high pressure for a long time and are particularly stressed, long-term high levels of cortisol will increase the activity of alpha receptors and promote the storage of fat, especially the accumulation of visceral fat.
What conditions can cause excessive cortisol secretion? Long-term excessive stress, lack of sleep, and excessive exercise will make your cortisol secrete too much.
5. Adrenaline
Elevated levels of adrenaline will increase beta receptor activity and promote lipolysis. Some people will say, in order to lose weight, I keep adrenaline at a high level for a long time Can't it? No, although the adrenaline level will increase and lipolysis will speed up when a person is excited, but you can't stay excited most of the day. Besides, agitation itself cannot lose weight, because light arousal does not exercise, and lipolysis is photodegraded. It can't be oxidized and used, and it will turn back into fat.
Conclusion:
A relaxed mood helps reduce the secretion of cortisol,Low levels of cortisol will not promote fat storage, making you less likely to get fat.
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