How Your Body Really Burns Fat: Can We Control It?

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“There is a heart in all that fat.” is poetry

I've lost 50 pounds of fat mentally watching this video

00:04 Understanding how the body burns fat 01:52 Visceral fat around the heart can lead to health conditions 03:38 When we exercise, certain chemicals are released that activate hormone-sensitive lipase, which breaks down fats into fatty acids. 05:19 Glucose is metabolized aerobically and anaerobically, while fats can only be metabolized aerobically 07:13 Consistent overall fat loss leads to increased muscle visibility 08:56 Exercise intensity affects the proportion of fats burned. 10:42 Athletes in different sports have different muscular development, but they all have low body fat. 12:27 To lose fat, burn more calories than you consume.

Quite a difference seeing fat in a real body than in diagrams! 😮 Thank you for the video!

You had me at “yes there’s a heart in all that fat”, that I had no clue. This is what I horribly needed to personally see. Thank you!!!

I've been watching videos for decades about burning fat and I must say this video is the best I have ever seen! This is the ultimate description. Thank you 🙏🏼

Often times, we go to school and we take biology and learn all these terms for the test, but in reality, we're not really understanding the information that we have learned, even less, know how to apply it in real life. This video has finally explained what all that jargon means, and now it makes sense. Thank you guys for such an excellent explanation of how fat is lost from our bodies.

I lost 150lbs by going low carb. My only exercise was casually walking my dog 8 doors down and back every day. I went from 321lbs to 170lbs. I have kept the weight off for 5 years now. I tried all kinds of diets, but the only diet that works for me is a low carb diet. It’s a good thing I lost the weight because last year at age 62 I required Open Heart Surgery to replace my aortic valve. My valve had gotten damaged by endocarditis at sometime during my lifetime. I don’t know when or how, but my surgeon suspects I had Strep throat at some point in my life and that probably caused it. I had a 5mm hole in a leaflet of my bicuspid aortic valve. I’m lucky to be alive. I wish you’d do a video on endocarditis one day. Or on what a strep throat infection can lead to.

I lost about 25 pounds over the last 2 years, simply by going to the gym and doing cardio and weight machines consistently. I didn't do intense exercises, just went to the gym consistently. Lots of socializing there (I'm retired now), but I found that going 3-5 days a week made it easier to mix it up and never get bored. I was also doing a lot of walking, until the heat of the summer months prevented that. I still need to lose about 15 more pounds to my first goal, but I'll get there. My BMI went from 36 to now 30. Seeing the difference between visceral fat and subcutaneous fat really explains how important diet and exercise really affects the body. P.S. My cholesterol and triglycerides are very good now, my A1C is normal, and I haven't eaten "junk food" and sodas for about 10 years. Of course, I'm still a sweet tooth lover of baked items, but everything in moderation and again, consistent trips to my gym helps.

As someone who donated my mom's body for science I appreciate such videos ....

Man this one brought out my inner nerd and I was so content for 14 mins...love this

I'm in my 50s and seriously started daily strength exercise the last 11 months and am shocked at myself, finally have a flat belly and 6 pack emerging. Yes hard work and consistency pays off.

That was probably the best breakdown of the fat burning process I've seen. Really useful to have the visuals too. Thank you.

Thank you so much for making anatomy understandable for common people without too much previous knowledge. I really apreciate it.

0:06: 🔥 This video discusses the process of burning fat and losing subcutaneous and visceral fat. 3:27: 💪 During exercise, the body breaks down fat stored in adipose cells to provide energy for the muscles. 6:26: 🔥 The process of losing fat involves pulling fatty acids out of adipose cells, causing the cells to shrink and the overall tissue to get thinner. 9:09: ✅ There is no one best way to exercise for fat loss, as different types of exercise can be successful in burning and losing fat. 11:56: 🔥 The key to losing weight and fat is to burn more calories than we consume. Recap by Tamm

Thank you for making these free! Your videos are absolutely amazing! Kudos

This is honestly one of my favorite YouTube channels, great content and I learn so much

First of all, I wanna say that I've discovered this channel about a month ago and I just cannot stop watching! Thanks guys, the knowledge you share here are very high quality, and you help a lot of people understand a lot of topics that once were somewhat difficult, you are awesome!! So, I'm gonna bring something to discuss here, see if I can get to a better understanding: about four years I've made a program of nutrition and exercise with a Dietitian and I was introduced to intermittent fasting (I did in a way I was already kind of used to, which I had 8-10h without food and it was during nighttime, as so the moment I was sleeping) but the point is that I was instructed to break the fast primarly with fat source food (generally from "good" sources) and so the dietitian explained to me (I'm just gonna simplify here) that over time, if I kept breaking fast with "fat", my body would build the structure to use the fat more easily to produce energy, and so at some point, it would start using the fat that was already in my body to burn into energy for the muscles, decreasing my body fat % faster. I wanna know if this realy apply biologically (without going into the discussion if is intermittent fast is bad or good) and if this brings any real results. I can't tell if it worked for me, because I've always had high volume of physical activity, so I mantained BF% ok levels, also the pandemics happened and I stopped attending the program. Anyways, sorry for the looong coment, and if anyone has any thoughts to share here, thanks!!