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I believe that encouraging aerobic respiration (maintaining high levels of O2) would be less efficient if your goal is weight loss. When your cells are breakin
by delecti 12y ago
I believe that encouraging aerobic respiration (maintaining high levels of O2) would be less efficient if your goal is weight loss.
When your cells are breaking down sugar into energy, if you have enough oxygen readily available then you can extract more energy per molecule of sugar. If you're burning sugar anaerobically, then you won't be able to make the full use of the sugar, and thus the byproducts will get excreted with less work required.
- pbhjpbhj 12y agoAre you talking glycolysis there? >the byproducts will get excreted // How?
- delecti 12y agoCorrect. Also, I was mistaken somewhat, the byproducts aren't excreted, they're reprocessed in the liver back into glucose, but this requires extra energy. So it's less efficient than aerobic respiration, but not by as much as I believed.