How Alcohol Can Affect Weight and Body Composition?

In excess, alcohol consumption may cause adverse effects on your body, leading to weight gain. For example, alcohol may affect hormones that control appetite, hunger, and stress. Alcohol is high in calories and is likely to increase abdominal fat. 

Affects Your Hormones

Drinking alcohol can impair the functions of your glands that release hormones, which may cause weight gain.สมัครสมาชิก UFABET 

Generally, glands in your body release the right amount of hormones at an exact time, which send messages to your tissues. Those messages aid in your body’s stress response and help control your energy and metabolism.

For example, your adrenal glands, found on top of your kidneys, secrete cortisol, a stress hormone. Usually, cortisol helps your body respond to stress by increasing blood pressure and heart rate.

Some evidence suggests that heavy drinking may cause your adrenal glands not to regulate how much cortisol they secrete. As a result, people who drink heavily may have high cortisol levels.

Research has found that elevated cortisol levels may increase abdominal weight gain. Cortisol redistributes fat tissue to your abdominal region and increases cravings for high-calorie foods.

Can Make You Feel Hungry.

After a few drinks, you may be more likely to make unhealthy food choices without thinking about it.

Most studies on alcohol’s effects on appetite have been conducted in animals. More human research is needed to understand how alcohol affects hunger. One animal study published in 2017 found that alcohol activates cells in your brain that signal intense hunger.

Alcohol can reduce your blood sugar level, which may increase hunger. Some evidence suggests that people may seek high-carb foods to satisfy their cravings if their blood sugar dips slightly.

As a result, people with diabetes may need to practice caution. Drinking alcohol with diabetes medicine, especially on an empty stomach, may cause low blood sugar.