How will alcohol affect your fitness effect? Most of us occasionally have a drink and sometimes even get sick, but we didn't expect that this might affect the effect of fitness. One of the physiological effects of drinking is dehydration, and you don't know it.
Because alcohol is a diuretic, the more you drink, the more you will urinate, that is, take off more water. In the worst case, excessive drinking will lead to severe dehydration and electrolyte imbalance. In addition, drinking alcohol will increase the concentration of toxic ethanol in the body.
In addition, ethanol is listed as a carcinogen, just like tobacco, asbestos and processed meat, which is why many Asians turn red when drinking, which is also commonly known as Asian alcohol reaction.
This is because enzymes in the body are decomposing toxic substances. Of course, dehydration and hangover will increase your fatigue, slowness and knotting. So your chances of going to the gym are close to zero. Needless to say, if you don't go to the gym, you won't grow muscles.
In fact, even if you practice muscles, it may be affected. Studies have shown that drinking a small amount of alcohol, about 40 grams or a cup, has no effect on testosterone, a hormone that grows muscles, but if you continue to drink more, the results will be different.
When you drink three glasses of wine continuously for 10 to 16 hours, research shows that this will reduce your testosterone by about 23%, and it will not return to normal until 36 hours later, which is one and a half days for your muscle synthesis.
Studies have also shown that the more severe the hangover, the more testosterone will be reduced. To make matters worse, alcohol can also lead to the reduction of oxidized leucine, which is also very important for muscle growth, and its influence on hormones is not over yet. Adequate alcohol can also inhibit the content of leptin.
Being thin can make you feel full. If you want to lose weight, I hope you can resist your appetite after drinking. In order to lose weight or even fat, alcohol will also change the way the body uses energy. Generally speaking, the body will use glucose or fat as energy.
Through glycolysis and fat oxidation, once there is alcohol, the body will change from this mode to decompose alcohol to produce energy. Alcohol itself has seven calories per gram, and the body will break it down into ethanol, then acetic acid, and finally into usable energy.
When this process is going on, the body will not use other energy, that is, the energy absorbed when drunk will be stored as fat, and the body will not burn fat during this period. The most important thing is that alcohol will reduce your sleep quality.