Alcohol And The Metabolic Diet

[Gourav]

The reason why alcohol has a dramatic effect on fat metabolism related to the way alcohol is handled in the body. When alcohol is consumed, it's easy to pass from the stomach and intestines into the blood and into the liver. In the liver, an enzyme called alcohol dehydrogenate mediates the conversion of alcohol to acetaldehyde.

Formaldehyde rapidly converted to acetate by other enzymes. So rather than getting stored as fat, the main fate of alcohol is conversion into acetate, the amount of acetate formed is dose dependent on the amount of alcohol consumed. For example, levels of acetate after drinking the vodka were 2.5 times higher than normal. And this seems to rise sharply acetate puts the brakes on fat loss.

[Timbaland]

Type of fuel your body uses to some extent dictated by availability. This is one reason for the induction phase of the Metabolic Diet. By severely limiting your intake of carbohydrates your body is forced to lap the fat-burning engine, so you become fat adapted, and increase the use of protein for multiple functions, such as hanapers is, that carbs are usually very involved in.

In other words, your body tends to use whatever you eat, and after some time become adapted to the nutritional intake of macro. Unfortunately when acetate levels rise, your body burns a special acetate, because acetate is basically the same product of beta-oxidation of fatty acids and glycol sis (glucose to private to acetate), but does not require the metabolism to produce.