Eli5 What is actually happening when you burn fat?

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This might be a stupid question, I might indeed be stupid. But what is the actual process going on inside my body at 290lbs when I go hiking for example?

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You are excercising, and warming your body from within.

([Generally this isn’t kindergarten but I have some students more advanced in some areas….]Generating energy, with your heart, while it’s pumping blood, the blood flow is producing friction or rubbing molecules/cells, which generates heat in your arms and legs, and torso, and warms everything up.)

You are sweating.

So your fat can turn into liquid on your skin, to cool your body from the exercise.

So you don’t over heat like a cell phone and power down.

Because high fevers can hurt your brain really bad, St. Joe’s and Local Medical center don’t want me to discuss that.

For a less biologically expressed explanation with physical science, ask a a grown up if they can help you with this experiment, go grab a bottle of water, one with grooves, not a flat surfaced one, and make sure it’s a disposable or recyclable one, cheapest ones usually, whatever.

Open the lid, now drink the whole bottle.

Now take that bottle to the sink, and fill it ALL THE WAY UP no space, and as little air as possible. Put the lid on it VERY tightly. Put it in the freezer. Wait 3-6 hours, no peeking, or 6-9 hours if you want to watch it expand as time goes on. Now. Grab a bowl from your cabinet and set the now expanded water bottle standing up within it, on your couter and come back to it in 6-12 hours. The results are a very basic explanation with physical science as to how we biologically process and store fat.

You can substitute butter or lard in similar exercises with the fridge and not the freezer, but the expansion and then shrinking of the tightly closed water bottle will actually explain how sweating affects your weight.

If you want tea, you can freeze 4/5ths of a gallon jug of water(without the lid and avoid milk jugs with loose seals), and keep the lid off until noted, boil about 2 cups of water then add 5 single cup tea bags, and about a .25-.5 cup of sugar, once removed from heat source(but not cooled down), and stir until sugar is desolved, once that occurs, you want to use a funnel to safely pour the water into the jug of ice with adult supervision the entire time, and then have the adult firmly replace the lid, as tight as necessary for nonair to escape. Now leav the tea jug on a big dinner plate or in a glass baking dish, on your counter for 4-6 hours. Not the jugs size changes. And the condensation gathered in the dish below it?

How? Here’s a convoluted explanation because I can’t teach you an entire degree at the moment:

Condensation, or biologically stated as perspiration. You are converting “coagulated [like scabs or blood clotting]” sugars and fat by warming them up and then sweating them out. This is why you can tell by a person’s sweat scent, if you can smell well enough, and don’t try and cover your ability to smell it all by EXCESSIVE tooth brushing, whether they are eating too much sugar, or drinking too much onion juice, or have liver issues etc. This is also how service dogs(and cats, really any animal trained from youth that doesn’t have processed foods and brush its teeth to dampen its ability to smell these things) are more effective as service animals than most care giving humans, because the animals can smell the endorphins and hormones your sweat glands release during seizures, high stress situations, and cardiac/respiratory issues. Except birds. Birds beaks don’t have the keen scent abilities as mammals but their feathers help them hear, and they are actually not just “parots” as science shows crows and their murders to be effective in community development and advancement. Even reptiles can be trained as support animals. Maybe I should do that. Just kidding I’m a great mom and would prefer to stay one by getting shit done with the help I actually need so my City and State don’t ruin more lives of my own and of children’s.

I OVER EXPLAIN BECAUSE I WAS THAT KID THAT PISSED ALL THE TEACHERS OFF WITH INFINITE WHY AND HOW QUESTIONS. KTHANKSBAI.

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