noodles1609
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I've been reading an awful lot recently on the metabolic processes of ketosis to enhance my own understanding of what goes on in the body (actually I set off to find out why it's reportedly dangerous to drink alcohol in ketosis, haven't found that out yet but did find lots of other interesting info!) - and have found some interesting theories on water consumption. These are just theories as there isn't a full understanding of why water helps with weight loss, the experts just know that it does! Thought I would share what I've found as it's really helped me to focus on upping my intake 
Drink your water ice cold - the body works hard to maintain a core temperature, the colder your water, the harder it has to work to get that water up to temperature - this process requires energy, the energy is from ketones, the ketones are made from your fat. So, drinking cold water burns your fat
When you are dehydrated your blood gets thicker - so it makes total sense that being very well hydrated will have at least a temporary effect of thinning your blood, until your body equalises that through other processes. If your blood is more dilute for even a short period then it makes sense also that your insulin levels will be temporarily lowered too. Insulin allows fat into fat cells but then holds the door shut so it can't get out again. Lowered insulin means there are some fat cells that will have their doors unguarded for a while, so the fat can sneak out.
Ketones are made in your liver, but the capacity the liver has to devote to making ketones from your fat depends on what else it's doing. There are other processes that take priority (it's like the queuebusters in a supermarket, while they are serving on the tills, their regular job of filling the shelves isn't being done) - so if your liver is detoxifying the toxic substances you've ingested, there is less capacity devoted to ketone production (toxins being things like caffiene, otc drugs, alcohol etc). Drinking water dilutes these toxins so more of the queuebusters can go back to filling the shelves. One suggestion is drinking a glass of water after each cup of coffee (or coke zero, or tea).
Ketones have a maximum capacity in your body - going back to the supermarket shelves, there is only one aisle available for the ketones, once that aisle is full, there is nowhere to put the rest, so they stop being made until there is room. If you then flush that aisle with water, the shelves will empty and production will continue to fill the shelves back up. Keep on flushing them out, they keep on being made from your fat.
As I said, these are theories, but theories from experts in their fields so do have their base in metabolic understanding. I do like them, and they work for me! What's not to like about having a fat flushing facility literally on tap!
Drink your water ice cold - the body works hard to maintain a core temperature, the colder your water, the harder it has to work to get that water up to temperature - this process requires energy, the energy is from ketones, the ketones are made from your fat. So, drinking cold water burns your fat
When you are dehydrated your blood gets thicker - so it makes total sense that being very well hydrated will have at least a temporary effect of thinning your blood, until your body equalises that through other processes. If your blood is more dilute for even a short period then it makes sense also that your insulin levels will be temporarily lowered too. Insulin allows fat into fat cells but then holds the door shut so it can't get out again. Lowered insulin means there are some fat cells that will have their doors unguarded for a while, so the fat can sneak out.
Ketones are made in your liver, but the capacity the liver has to devote to making ketones from your fat depends on what else it's doing. There are other processes that take priority (it's like the queuebusters in a supermarket, while they are serving on the tills, their regular job of filling the shelves isn't being done) - so if your liver is detoxifying the toxic substances you've ingested, there is less capacity devoted to ketone production (toxins being things like caffiene, otc drugs, alcohol etc). Drinking water dilutes these toxins so more of the queuebusters can go back to filling the shelves
. One suggestion is drinking a glass of water after each cup of coffee (or coke zero, or tea).Ketones have a maximum capacity in your body - going back to the supermarket shelves, there is only one aisle available for the ketones, once that aisle is full, there is nowhere to put the rest, so they stop being made until there is room. If you then flush that aisle with water, the shelves will empty and production will continue to fill the shelves back up. Keep on flushing them out, they keep on being made from your fat.
As I said, these are theories, but theories from experts in their fields so do have their base in metabolic understanding. I do like them, and they work for me! What's not to like about having a fat flushing facility literally on tap!
