Get StartedWater is essential for human life. In fact, our bodies are composed of approximately 60% water. But what many people don't know is that drinking enough water each day is crucial for fat loss. Watch this video to find out why you should be drinking more water.
How individuals who want more hydrated had a much easier time reducing body fat percentage Today's topic for today's live stream is going to be on something that seems pretty basic. But for a lot of people, it's still difficult thing to accomplish. And my purpose today is maybe to give some information as to why hydration and drinking water is so important. We all know, we've all been told that drink a gallon water daily is really key. Why exactly is it so important to drink water? And this is a really key component of lean for life program, the gallon of water, but why why is it so important? And the key thing is that a huge proportion of her body consists of water and 60% of your body is just purely water, right. And it has multiple functions throughout the body that are very, very important for optimum health carries nutrients, oxygens ways from your cells and organs. It's really important for cooling, it's really important to cushion for your joints, which extra tissues and organs for shocking damage. And it's a really key indicator as a lubricant, what a lot of people don't recognize, and they will sometimes jump to like peptides or collagen. But just dehydration really can affect joint pain. So much so that, you know, regular hydration, drinking at least a gallon can cause some significantly, like low back pain, shoulder pain or knee pain. So that's the first thing you always want to do. The other thing that is really key to remember is that in terms of your metabolism, it's very important to maintain a healthy weight. Why is that important? Well, there's been a lot of research as to why hydration can be associated with weight loss. And there's a good article here that kind of talks about that. So this review article basically looked at several different publications in recent history that looked at how individuals who were more hydrated had a much easier time with reducing body fat percentage, they strove to kind of find a unifying thesis as to why this was the case. And it was really interesting. What they found was the hydrated adipocytes. So adipocytes are essentially the functional unit of adipose tissue, the functional cell. What they found is when adipocytes are dipisites are hydrated, you're much more likely to have a healthy balance between triglyceride formation and breakdown so that free fatty acids, which is a huge constituent of ATP production throughout the body ends up being the energy molecule. It's so important for us there's a healthy balance between triglyceride formation and triglyceride breakdown. Also, when adipocytes are hydrated, your insulin sensitivity is much, much higher. And the reasoning seems to be because that sounds are adipocytes, they tend to release the hormone called adiponectin. And adiponectin is we're finding it to be very, very important in improving insulin sensitivity. And then you guys might be wondering, why does that matter? When you have better insulin levels, when your insulin levels more sensitive, you're much less likely to have glucose outside the cell and rather glucose into the cell. Right. And so when glucose is able to transfer into cell can be used to produce ATP uses glycogen storage versus staying outside the cell, where it can cause all sorts of issues, primarily leading to free radical production information by qolsys and proteins in atherosclerosis. So that's very, very important. This diagram kind of demonstrates that so when you are hydrated, you can see glucose is traveling into the fat cell. It is producing triglycerides, there's a healthy balance between triglyceride formation which we're starting to break down so you get the fatty acids and chorale and you get adiponectin release. As you start to get more dehydrated, the balance seems to break down. So you tend to get much more triglyceride formation in that cell and the problem with higher triglycerides and your vessels as they get bigger, right. Larger fat cells are not a good thing. And what this art with this diagram doesn't demonstrate is there are certain proteins in Kima concert release that actually increase the amount of fat cells in the area. So not only do you get larger fat cells, they get a larger amount of fat cells. Within the adipose tissue, when you're chronically dehydrated, this whole process becomes much, much more pronounced, right. So instead of there being a healthy balance with triglyceride formation and breakdown, it's primarily triglyceride formation, your adiponectin levels from end to develop insulin resistance. So on the cellular level, that cell perspective, it's really bad to stay dehydrated, what happens to the cells in the periphery? Well, in terms of the cells in the periphery, a nother issue that's kind of similar happens as well. So in a normally hydrated cell, they will be able to have plenty of ATP production. Remember, ATP against adenosine triphosphate is the energy molecule in the cell, it's very important, your cell to function appropriately. And it also is an indicator of good mitochondrial function, right and good mitochondria. And it's good for ATP production. When you're normally hydrated, large amount of free fatty acids and amino acids and glucose is able to get into the cell because your insulin levels are appropriate. And rather insulin, your body's immune cells are sensitive, and somebody's able to go out uptake. Right. One thing to note, and this might be I don't want to get too much into the biochemistry. But when you think about metabolic pathways, that is pathways that produce energy, that the acids produce way more ATP, than glucose glucose typically produce about 30 or So ATP molecules, one molecule of value and one fatty acid molecule can be broken down to over 180 molecules. So ideally, it's important to maximize processes in which fatty acids can be utilized. And hydration is a key component of that. And as you can see, as you become more dehydrated, as you are unique, become more insulin resistant, unless smaller amounts of these items are able to enter the cell, your cells can produce ATP, and much more inefficient process called Why Why qolsys, which does involve oxygen, and it's okay. I mean, it's great if you can drive some energy, but it's a far lower amount being TP versus a situation where you have access to the battery acids amino acids like glucose, right. And so as you started to become mildly dehydrated, while your ATP production calms down, and then finally, as you become chronically dehydrated, and there is a significant amount of insulin resistance, the glucose free fatty acid and amino acid introduction to this cell is significantly reduced. So as you can imagine the cellular function decreased a significant significantly, this is a really key issue, particularly in the brain, right, because the brain unlocks the rest of the body in which they tend to they can use fatty acids very readily, particularly hard, for example, thrives on the zinc, fatty acids and source of energy needs to production, the brain neurons, particular attendees glucose, if you have insulin resistance, you're not going to be able to push those glucose molecules into your neurons and other associated cells like the microglia, and oligodendrocytes within your brain. And therefore, you're not going to function as well. And that actually can lead to the next update where cognition can be affected. And it stands to reason that it's really really important to to stay hydrated and to drink water, because on a cellular basis makes a big, big difference. Another thing to note is there have been several studies that looked at cognition. And here's the study of actually looked at a minor degree hypohydration and how it affected cognition, looked at a group of 100 101 individuals in which they were based in the state of Mount dehydration. What they found was that when there's a loss, less than 1% of their body mass is significantly affected their cognitive functioning, I recognize a lot of my patients staying focused and clear and, and being able to concentrate fully is a very important part of their job, activities of daily life. So staying hydrated should also be a very, very important people needs well. So the reality is, you know, making this a priority and getting your water in is really, really key.
