Short transcript of a discussion (likely a YouTube video) about how alcohol affects the body’s ability to burn fat. Key claims: the liver prioritizes metabolizing alcohol, alcohol can indirectly cause weight gain via elevated cortisol and hormonal shifts (e.g., increased estrogen in some women), nutrient depletion, and loss of muscle mass; strength training is recommended to counter muscle loss.
Your body can't.
Burn fat when you drink alcohol.
And literally.
The biggest thing that's happening is your liver has to metabolize that alcohol. And so.
It'S, it's not that alcohol.
Makes you fat. It can cause weight gain because of our stress hormone cortisol more than anything. And shifting our hormones.
Causing excess.
Estrogen in some women, causing nutrient depletion, depletion like vitamins and minerals not being absorbed, that type of thing, and then loss of muscle mass. That is. So getting strength training in and building that muscle.
Is part of the way.
To regulate your blood sugar. So when you're drinking regularly, you're losing that muscle building capacity.
