Drinking alcohol reduces the body's natural GLP-1 activity by 34%(recursiveadaptation.com) |
Drinking alcohol reduces the body's natural GLP-1 activity by 34%(recursiveadaptation.com) |
Even worse, it is consumed in liquid form, which also bypasses some satiation mechanisms in the body.
There's a reason tour de France riders get most of their replacement calories in liquid form
https://recursiveadaptation.com/p/first-ever-randomized-tria...
And the reason is “for digestion”.
So this would suggest the opposite effect is happening. Drinking actually hurts digestion.
Digestifs seem to often have a bitter or aniseed element in them. I wonder if that is now known to have a legitimate scientific basis, or if it's just some kind of Mediterranean historical accident.
This is an excuse a few use to justify drinking wine when they know it's "otherwise" unhealthy, but most people here who drink do so simply because they like it.
More like Ouzo in Greece.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouzo#:~:text=Ouzo%2520(Greek%2....
I'd be keen to understand the pathway by which alcohol intake directly reduces GLP-1 activity.
Glucose can go right into the bloodstream (?), but ethanol needs to be reacted (taking energy) to turn into blood glucose.
This is a confusion I have about calories-in-calories-out in general, fat/carbs/protein are all metabolized with different (and variable) efficiencies. Even pro-CICO folks agree not to count ingested calories that can't be metabolized, but that's just one spot on a gradient to draw a line.