iScience: You can lose weight while sitting! Move your heels, double your fat metabolism, and learn it in one go

Obesity is both a feature and a disease, obesity is one of the ten major chronic diseases identified by the World Health Organization, obese people are more susceptible to metabolic diseases and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and chronic kidney diseases
.

In China, there are more than 300 million people who are
overweight and obese.

All along, people have been hollowing out their minds in weight loss, and various methods to promote glucose and fat burning, including exercise, fasting, etc
.

Recently, researchers at the University of Houston published a research paper
entitled "A potent physiological method to magnify and sustain soleus oxidative metabolism improves glucose and lipid regulation" in the journal "iScience".

The study found a way to burn fat sitting and moving, sitting and moving the heels, fat metabolism doubled, can consume a lot of energy, help lose weight, improve metabolism and so on
.

The flounder muscle, so named for its shape, is one of the 600 muscles of the human body that is on the back side of the calf and extends from below the knee to the heel
.

In the study, the researchers developed a method that optimally activates the soleus muscle, the soleus muscle push-up (SPU), with both feet laid flat on the floor in a relaxed state, heels raised while toes remain stationary
.

Flounder muscle push-ups

The researchers say that while eye muscle push-ups may look like walking, it's the opposite
.

Muscle biopsy shows that it is glycogen
that contributes the least amount of energy to the soleus muscle.

When the researchers tested solegue muscle push-ups, within three hours of ingesting glucose drinks, they measured the effects on blood chemistry throughout the body and found a 52 percent improvement in blood sugar fluctuations and a 60 percent
reduction in insulin requirements.

Improves blood sugar and insulin requirements

In addition, doing flounder muscle push-ups during fasting between meals can also effectively double the normal fat metabolism rate during fasting between meals, thereby reducing the level of
fat in the blood.

Within three hours of carbohydrate intake, the combined 600 muscles of the body typically contribute only about
15% of the body's oxidative metabolism.

Flounder muscle push-ups drive systemic metabolism

The researchers said that the eyefish muscle push-ups activate the soleus muscle differently than when standing or walking, targeting the soleus muscle, increasing oxygen consumption, more than other types of soleus muscle activity can achieve, while also resisting fatigue
.

The researchers note that this is not a new fitness technique, but rather an effective physiological exercise that takes advantage of the unique characteristics of
the flounder muscle.

In today's society, many people are sedentary for various reasons, and sitting for a long time will increase the risk
of heart disease, diabetes, low metabolic rate and so on.

In summary, the study found a way to burn fat while sitting, move the heel, and double the fat metabolism, which may be a way
to solve various health problems caused by sitting for a long time.

Thesis Links:

https://doi.
org/10.
1016/j.
isci.
2022.
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