Is Your Epidermis Showing?
When I was a kid one of my friends used to go around cracking a
joke and saying “hey, your epidermis is showing!”. Most kids
had no idea that epidermis simply meant your skin, so you can
imagine that this joke created instant terror in the minds of
some of my childhood friends. Yeah, my buddy even got me with
this one.
But the role your epidermis, or skin, plays in your ability to
burn fat is no laughing matter. In fact, did you know that when
you burn fat, most of it is liminated through your skin? Let
me explain…(please forgive the rudimentary science lesson ;-))
You see, when we’re burning fat, we’re burning stored calories.
And calories are simply a measure of energy, or more
specifically heat energy. Now, years ago, our good pal Albert
Einstein showed us that energy cannot be created or destroyed,
only transferred.
Plants get energy through photosynthesis. Animals get this
energy by eating the plants or other animals. Humans get this
energy by eating animals and plants. Yeah, I’m talking about
the energy cycle here.
So when you burn fat, you are burning heat energy, and this must
be transferred out of your body and back into the energy cycle.
And about 75% of this heat transfer occurs through the layers
of your skin. (About 15% transfers through your urine, which is
another reason why increase water consumption helps you transfer
more fat from your body).
How do we apply this knowledge to burn more fat faster? Well,
we can improve the effectiveness of this fat transfer by
dressing in cooler clothes, not wearing hats, going barefoot
more often, and not bundling up with blankets. Basically,
anything to give our skin the best chance to transfer the body
fat we are working so hard to burn.
So make it easier on yourself, let your skin do its job of
transferring your stored body fat back into the energy cycle,
and you’ll be leaner faster.