🔻5 key points🔻
1🔻 Alcohol is a macro worth 7 calories for every gram. 150 calories per can of beer. Who drinks just one? 150×6…. That’s 900 calories! Almost half your daily intake.
2🔻 Alcohol naturally lowers blood sugars, making the brain crave carbohydrates. Without thoughtful moderation excess blood sugars are the root of inflammation and most diseases.
3🔻 Alcohol is metabolized First before all other macronutrients. If it’s not processed quick enough via the liver it’s stored as belly fat.
4🔻 Alcohol consumption reduces muscle protein synthesis (MPS), which reduces the ability of gaining muscle. It has also been proven that alcohol negatively modifies hormones. Primarily testosterone levels and decreases the body’s metabolism, meaning while metabolizing the alcohol fat loss becomes secondary.
5🔻 14 drinks per week or more than five drinks at a time, does directly suppress the immune system! Alcohol abuse is associated with increased risk of infectious diseases,