Booster foods for GLP-1 hormones are foods and drinks that don’t necessarily cause your body to produce more GLP-1 hormones, but they enhance and support the effects of increased GLP-1 production, such as suppressing your appetite and increasing your insulin sensitivity. So, these are two drinks that will help suppress your appetite and aid weight loss. They are meant to be consumed on top of foods that do increase your GLP-1 production to best aid you in your weight loss and/or diabetes journey.
Green Tea and Weight Loss
Green tea has a myriad of benefits
ranging from increasing brain function to lowering your blood pressure and comes in a variety of forms. There is traditionally brewed green tea, matcha tea, sencha tea, and gyokuro tea. Traditionally brewed green tea contains the highest amount of health benefits, but any form of green tea includes some of its many nutritious qualities, one being suppressing your appetite.
Green tea contains catechins, which are the specific antioxidants, caffeine, and L-theanine. This combination gives the drinker deep relaxation but also mild energy stimulation. Green tea suppresses your appetite by sneakily interfering with the complicated combination of nerve signals and hormones that tell your brain you are hungry. The caffeine temporarily suppresses your hunger signals to the brain, and catechin slows down your digestion of carbohydrates and helps regulate your blood sugar to lengthen the amount of time you feel full which causes you to eat less.
This delicious tea can also aid in weight management. The ingredients in green tea cause a biological response that causes your body to use more energy, even while you are just sitting down. Using up more energy forces your body to burn more calories and can cause you to lose weight as your body burns more stored fat. Green tea also causes your gut microbiome to flourish. It helps create a healthy environment for good gut bacteria while preventing bad gut bacteria from growing. This helps the gut function efficiently and in turn causes the body to regulate and control your insulin production. This helps the body not accumulate excess fat cells.
How Much Green Tea Should You Drink?
The appetite suppressant effects of green tea are due to a number of specific factors that are different for each person. It involves finding the right amount, the correct timing, and the right form, so it can get tricky to find the best combination to optimize its support for each individual.
The best recommended policy is to drink green tea about 20-30 minutes before you eat, as this will best increase your feelings of fullness and reduce how much you eat per meal. Drinking it in the afternoon when you would usually have a between-meal snack will also reduce your snacking and midday blood sugar drop. In total, research has shown that 3-4 cups of green tea per day is the best for receiving its full range of benefits.
Kombucha for Weight Loss
is a fermented tea that is created by fermenting sweet tea with a symbiotic culture made of bacteria and yeast, or a SCOBY. This fermentation results in a fizzy and acidic drink that is marketed as a health drink. It gained popularity when many discovered its ability to help manage weight and promote a healthy gut microbiome.
If you have drunk kombucha before, you might have noticed that after drinking it, you felt full even though you hadn’t eaten a full meal. This is due to its bubbly nature and acidity as the carbon dioxide bubbles accumulate in your stomach and take up more room, leading your body to believe your stomach is full of food. This sends signals to the brain to temporarily mitigate your feelings of hunger. On top of feeling more full, kombucha’s higher amount of acetic acid can cause temporary appetite suppression. According to researchers, acetic acid can slow down how fast food leaves the stomach and enters your intestine. By slowing down how fast your body processes food, this leaves food in the stomach longer, causing you to feel full longer and not eat as frequently. This can then cause weight loss due to the simple fact that you are eating less.
Studies are still researching the overarching effects of kombucha on the body, but some studies have discovered that the ingredients in kombucha might also help regulate blood sugar levels and your metabolism, potentially improving the rate your body stores fat.
How Much Kombucha Should You Drink?
It is best advised to drink kombucha 20-30 minutes before eating a meal to help curb your appetite and to minimize eating large portions of food. If you are a snacker, sipping on kombucha instead of getting a mid-afternoon snack will help satisfy your appetite without consuming a load of excess calories.
Plus, if you are a soda drinker but wanting to lose soda’s extra sugar, kombucha offers the sizzle of carbonation without any of the added sugar that comes in soda pop.
Boosting Your GLP-1 Hormones
If you are interested in losing weight but you don’t want to take GLP-1 medication, green tea and kombucha, paired with a healthy lifestyle and foods that naturally improve your body’s GLP-1 hormone production, can definitely jump start you on your weight loss journey. Be sure to remember that these are kombucha and green tea are not food so you must pair them with a balanced diet, quality sleep, and regular exercise to experience true weight loss effects. Before you start using either of these drinks regularly to suppress your appetite and lose weight, please talk to a doctor, dietitian, and/or nutritionist to see if these two booster foods would be right for you and your weight loss journey, especially if you are taking other medications.
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Green Tea: Appetite Suppressant That Helps with Natural Weight Control
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